Senior Backend Engineer, ClickHouse
Infrastructure, ClickPipes
$164-238k
+ Stock options. Salary partially dependent on location
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Be an early applicant
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$164-238k
+ Stock options. Salary partially dependent on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for exceptional backend engineers who can work across a variety of technologies, with deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud services, and platform reliability
- This role is ideal for individuals who are capable of working independently, taking initiative, and driving projects forward with a high level of autonomy
- Experience: 5+ years of industry experience building as a backend engineer
- Expertise: Golang, Kubernetes, Terraform (or comparable IaC tool), cloud-native architecture and solid knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider
- Customer Focus: Have a deep commitment to understanding and addressing customer needs. Use customer feedback and insights to inform and improve product development
- Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and a track record of working effectively across teams
- Problem Solver: Exceptional production debugging skills, with the ability to navigate and solve complex technical issues in fast-paced environments
- High Autonomy: Thrives in a high-velocity setting with significant ownership and autonomy
- Mindset: A founder’s mindset with a focus on impact, innovation, and delivering measurable results
What the job involves
- As a member of this team, you'll collaborate cross-functionally to build and maintain the robust infrastructure powering ClickPipes
- Enhance and scale our high-performance data onboarding platform to handle increasing volumes of data in real-time
- Own and evolve our infrastructure across multiple cloud providers (AWS, with expansion to GCP and Azure)
- Drive improvements to our deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and operational processes
- Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions that impact our platform's scalability and resilience
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents
- Continuously improve our systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements
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 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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