Senior Software Engineer, ClickHouse
$157-230k
Salary dependent on location + Stock options
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Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Open for applications
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$157-230k
Salary dependent on location + Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements)
- You have 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, service mesh)
- Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures) is a strong plus
- Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents)
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration
- You have 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
- You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
What the job involves
- 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 across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments
- Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments
- Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed
- Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure
- Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in 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 infrastructure components across diverse deployment models
- Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, 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
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.
It has seen substantial funding too, the most recent of which is cited to help advance its platform across multiple use cases. Alongside this funding, it recently announced the acquisition of LibreChat, an open-source AI chat platform, allowing ClickHouse to launch its Agentic Data Stack. This move positions the company at the forefront of agentic analytics, allowing organizations to interact with massive datasets through AI agents, and demonstrates ClickHouses's commitment to shaping the future of real-time,. intelligent data analysis.
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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 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
Company HQ
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Aaron Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to ClickHouse, Aaron spent 6 years at Elastic as CRO and Strategic Advisor. He also spent 12 years at salesforce, joining as a Regional VP of Sales before working through various roles to become the Senior VP of Enterprise Sales.
Yury Izrailevsky
(Co-Founder & President)Previously, Yury spent 3 years at Google as a VP of Engineering, 8 years at Netflix as a Director of Cloud and Systems Infrastructure and VP of CLoud Computing and Platform Engineering, and 8 years at Yahoo! as a Manager of Yahoo Data Warehouse and Director of Engineering.
Alexey Milovidov
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to becoming CTO in 2021, Alexey was the Head of CLickHouse and Yandex for over 13 years.
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