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. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of relevant experience in building scalable systems, proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred), and experience with cloud services and data streaming technologies. ClickHouse offers a remote-first work environment, competitive compensation, stock options, flexible time off, healthcare contributions, and a $500 home office setup.

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

• 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)