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ClickHouse

Location:
Germany

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IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

We are committed to providing our customers with reliable and secure services at ClickHouse. To continue this, we are building out our Site Reliability Engineering team in ClickHouse Core. As one of the first members of our Reliability Engineering Team at Core, you will be responsible for building and leading processes to ensure and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse. You will collaborate with different teams like Control Plane, Dataplane,Security, Support and Operations and guide them to implement ClickHouse in the best way for our customers. You will also own the areas of managing engineering escalation management and response, investigations, post-mortem analysis including running blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of how Clickhouse is run and optimized in the cloud. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance ClickHouse in ClickHouse Cloud.

Job Responsibility:

Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core
Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers
Dig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in Clickhouse Core to identify the root cause of problems and submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements
Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for ClickHouse core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to the impacted customers
Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities
Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize customer impact

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA or customer facing engineering
Previous experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production
Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus
Scripting experience with Shell or Python, and ability to read and understand C++ code
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills
You thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team, and you 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
Excellent communication skills

What we offer:

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

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Job Posted:
December 07, 2025

Work Type:

Remote work

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