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Senior Cloud Engineer - Secure Deployments

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ClickHouse

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Location:
United States

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

141000.00 - 208000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Join a small, specialized team building ClickHouse's next frontier - secure, airgapped deployments for government and enterprise clients who can't use public cloud. Our team is looking for exceptional engineers to design, develop, deploy and secure a ClickHouse Cloud database platform in airgapped environments.This is an exciting opportunity to architect solutions for environments with zero internet connectivity. This role involves architecting secure, high-performance, and scalable solutions tailored for classified and highly regulated systems. You will work closely with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP and other security frameworks while enabling our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, server-less clickHouse Cloud capabilities in isolated environments.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud tailored for airgapped systems
  • Build novel deployment automation for disconnected systems
  • Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure
  • Solve unique scaling challenges in classified/regulated environments
  • Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication and backup
  • Develop and maintain Helm Charts, operators and kubernetes manifests for database management
  • Implement repeatable automation to build, scale and troubleshoot various infrastructure components which form a part of air-gapped for disconnected operations
  • Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-premise, hybrid, and government cloud deployments
  • Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits
  • Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues
  • Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines

Requirements:

  • U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements)
  • 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
  • Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, serviceMesh)
  • Strong understanding of airgapped architectures, data isolation
  • Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) in government environments
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents)
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Python or Go) for automation and integration
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
  • Strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance
  • Thrive in a fast paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 07, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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