Remote Sr Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at ClickHouse, a high-performance columnar OLAP database management system company. The role involves designing, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure for their cloud service, working closely with other teams, and ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
• Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with envoy and Istio
• Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR

Responsibilities

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure
• Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management
• Work closely with our ClickHouse core database development team, and security team and partner with them to produce the SAS offering
• Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices
• Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infra, zero trust network, etc
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance
• 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

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)