Cloud Software Engineer, ClickHouse
Observability Platform
$141-230k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
Open for applications
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$141-230k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, isn't afraid to get hands-on during incidents, and knows when to automate the pain away
- While experience in roles like Software Engineer, SRE, Systems Engineer, or DevOps is valuable, we care most about your problem-solving skills and mindset
- If you enjoy tackling complex challenges across system design, infrastructure, automation, and incident response—while helping us scale with confidence—you’ll fit right in
- Strong bias for action and ownership — you ship, fix, and improve systems proactively
- Great production debugging skills and a problem-solving mindset
- Strong communication skills; comfortable working in a remote, async-friendly team
- Experience balancing system performance, reliability, and cost
- Ability to iterate quickly: build MVPs, collect feedback, and improve continuously
- 5+ years building and running production systems at scale
- Proficiency in Golang
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Comfortable working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools
- Experience with ClickHouse preferred
What the job involves
- ClickHouse is looking for an experienced engineer to join our Observability team. We build and operate the telemetry platform that powers both internal monitoring and the observability features our customers rely on
- Our systems ingest trillions of events per day with sustained throughput in the tens of millions per second. Engineers on the team are hybrid software, systems, and infrastructure engineers who ensure this platform is reliable, scalable, and efficient
- We work closely with product and infrastructure teams and play a key role in major engineering initiatives across the company
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that power observability across ClickHouse Cloud
- Own reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our telemetry pipeline and storage systems
- Take part in the on-call rotation and help drive root-cause resolution and long-term fixes
- Build tooling and automation to eliminate repetitive operational work
- Help shape the roadmap for observability by identifying bottlenecks and scaling challenges
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to improve their observability posture
- Contribute to design discussions, architecture reviews, and mentor teammates
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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