Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join ClickHouse's Observability team as a highly skilled software or site reliability engineer. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining our petabyte-scale observability platform, focusing on the Product Metrics component. Responsibilities include contributing to the roadmap, delivering new features, ensuring system reliability and performance, mentoring team members, and participating in on-call rotations. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and ClickHouse in a fast-paced, remote-first environment. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in building and operating scalable systems, proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred), and experience with cloud services and data streaming technologies. ClickHouse offers competitive compensation, stock options, flexible work arrangements, healthcare contributions, generous time off, and a supportive, collaborative culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar that translates well
• Experience with at least one of the major Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with data streaming/message brokering systems such as Kafka, RedPanda or similar
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Temporal as well as infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• You demonstrate a strong initiative and a preference for action, high level of responsibility, ownership and accountability
• You prioritize customer needs, ensuring that our products are designed with the user in mind
• You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• You have a strong problem solving mindset and have solid production debugging skills
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams in a fully remote environment
• 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

Responsibilities

• Take an active part in determining the roadmap for the Product Metrics component
• Work closely within the team to deliver new features, iterate and improve them
• Design, build, operate, and maintain business-critical petabyte-scale systems
• Be responsible for the performance, reliability, availability and cost-efficiency of the Product Metrics component
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Be a part of on-call rotation and take ownership of the services you're running
• Educate and lead efforts to improve observability among all engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ClickHouse
• Familiarity with open source or enterprise observability technologies; familiarity with solutions in metrics, logs, and tracing domains

Benefits

• Cash compensation and a stock options grant
• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees
• 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 all countries
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
• Employee-driven international mobility - we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations)