Senior Backend Engineer, ClickHouse
ClickStack
+ Stock Options
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
Job no longer available
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- A backend engineer who excels at building reliable, performant services in TypeScript and Node.js
- A creative problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Driven to ship features that make a tangible impact for customers
- Eager to learn and push boundaries, embracing new technologies and approaches
- Love what you do and are passionate about software
- Move fast and learn from mistakes
- Love the freedom to create with minimal interruptions
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks)
- Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling
- Experience with Go is a plus — you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- A passion for open source and the developer community
- Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers
Desirable
- Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or other analytical/OLTP databases
- Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, logging pipelines, or metrics infrastructure
- Experience with SDKs or client library design
- Exposure to message queues, streaming systems (Kafka, NATS), or event-driven architectures
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build a petabyte-scale, high-performance observability platform with a laser focus on crafting an amazing developer experience
- Shape the product: Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day
- Engage with the community: Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design
- Tackle technical challenges: Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data. You'll build the foundational services that empower engineers to crack production issues like never before
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 and acquired LibreChat, an open-source AI chat platform, allowing it 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 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$400m
LATE VC
May 2025
$350m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
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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