Release Engineer

Summary

Join ClickHouse's Developer Productivity team as a Release Engineer and contribute to the smooth rollout of our cloud-based database platform. You will architect and build automation for rollouts and end-to-end tests, improve internal command-line tools, collaborate with other teams to enhance processes, and coordinate major version upgrades. This role demands strong software development skills, experience with cloud technologies and Kubernetes, and a passion for developer experience and automation. You will be involved in production debugging and on-call rotation. ClickHouse offers a flexible work environment, healthcare contributions, equity, flexible time off, a home office setup allowance, global gatherings, and the opportunity to shape the company culture.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Software development experience in Go (or experience with any other programming language and willingness to learn Go)
• You are passionate about developer experience and automation
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills
• You thrive in a fast paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward
• You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

Responsibilities

• Architect and build robust and scalable automation and processes for rollouts and end-to-end tests
• Improve and extend our internal command line tool
• Work closely with other cloud and core database teams to identify areas of improvement - we are our own product managers for internal tooling
• Coordinate and execute the technical steps required to deploy, validate, and monitor major version upgrades in our cloud
• Educate and support other teams using our internal tools
• Be part of the on-call rotation and investigate issues in our ClickHouse Cloud production environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with ClickHouse preferred

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites