Senior Software Engineer, ClickHouse
Core Database CI Infrastructure
+ Stock options
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Be an early applicant
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
ClickHouse's mission is to allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant systems
- Strong software development experience in Python for automation, tooling, and orchestration
- Familiarity with project management and version control platforms such as GitHub or GitLab, along with an understanding of CI/CD pipelines and related workflows, and solid understanding of Git and its advanced capabilities
- Hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. Solid understanding of Docker
- Experience with basic database systems and strong proficiency in writing and executing SQL queries
- Hands-on experience with AI tools and writing prompts for them. Strong interest in developing integrations with AI tools and LLM agents
- Readiness to occasionally read code in C++ for reference and better understanding of our internals, with a solid understanding of compiling, linking, and debugging processes. Familiarity with C/C++/Rust or other low-level languages and their build systems
- Proven track record of developing, shipping, and maintaining large-scale technical projects in fast-paced environments
- Communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working across time zones with a globally distributed team
- A strong problem-solver with solid debugging skills, and a deep understanding of production-level systems and failure modes
What the job involves
- The CI Infrastructure Engineering team builds and operates the systems that enable continuous testing of the open-source ClickHouse database and ensure its seamless integration into the ClickHouse Cloud offering
- Our work is critical to maintaining the quality, performance, and reliability of both our OSS and cloud products
- We’re looking for highly skilled and experienced software engineers to join us
- In this role, you’ll design, develop, and maintain CI infrastructure as a cohesive system—making it more scalable, efficient, reliable, and developer-friendly
- You’ll help shape the foundation that supports rapid innovation across the ClickHouse ecosystem, while ensuring stability and confidence in every change contributed by thousands of developers worldwide
- Architect and build robust, scalable infrastructure on top of public cloud services to support continuous delivery of the open-source ClickHouse database and the ClickHouse Cloud offering
- Develop platforms and tooling for continuous quality assurance, artifact delivery, and large-scale automated testing
- Streamline CI/CD workflows and enhance the developer experience through improved automation and visibility
- Collaborate closely with the ClickHouse core database and security teams to tightly integrate CI processes into the overall development lifecycle
- Monitor, debug, and optimize the CI infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
Our take
Database management systems have long been important to the operations of businesses. However, these systems can be painfully slow. ClickHouse solves this problem with its ultra-fast database management system, that powers real-time analytics and apps.
ClickHouse's founding team hail from companies including Yahoo!, Netflix, Salesforce and Google. This has not only lent the company an impressive amount of credibility, but has also allowed it to identify the needs and challenges of enterprises when it comes to their databases. Its system works between 100 and 1,000 times faster than traditional options, and has led to the company being trusted by the likes of eBay, Uber and Spotify.
Valued at $1 billion back in 2021, it is clear that ClickHouse holds a strong position in the market, though it does face competition from rivals such as StarTree and Imply. It has seen substantial funding, the most recent of which is cited to help expand its product and engineering teams. In 2022, the company also launched ClickHouse Cloud - a fully managed, SOC 2 Type 2-compliant cloud-hosted version of its database that is now available in the AWS Marketplace.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$350m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $650m
Company benefits
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering both office based and remote work options (your choice!). We do not check when you log in or out. You are the owner of your calendar because work-life balance is important to us
- Employer contributions towards your healthcare
- Equity - Any new team member who joins our company is eligible to receive stock options
- Our competitive time-off policy complies with all local country laws at a minimum of given time off + all paid bank holidays
- Home office setup allowance for our remote employees
Company HQ
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Aaron Katz
(CEO)Previously worked as a Consultant at PeopleSoft, and was SVP of Enterprise Sales at salesforce.com. Was also CRO of Elastic.
Yury Izrailevsky
(President, Product & Technology)Was Director of Engineering for Yahoo!'s Search Engine Core. Worked as VP of Cloud Computing at Netflix, and then joined Google as VP of Engineering.
Alexey Milovidov
(CTO)Was previously Head of ClickHouse at Yandex.
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