Site Reliability Engineer, ClickHouse
Core C++ Team
$130-210k
Salary dependent on location + Stock Options
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Posted today
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
101-200 employees
Posted today
$130-210k
Salary dependent on location + 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 degree in Computer Science or a related field
- At least 8 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA or customer facing engineering
- Previous experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production
- Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus
- Scripting experience with Shell or Python,and ability to read and understand C++ code
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team, and you 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
- Excellent communication skills
What the job involves
- We are committed to providing our customers with reliable and secure services at ClickHouse
- To continue this, we are building out our Site Reliability Engineering team in ClickHouse Core
- As one of the first members of our Reliability Engineering Team at Core, you will be responsible for building and leading processes to ensure and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse
- You will collaborate with different teams like Control Plane, Dataplane,Security, Support and Operations and guide them to implement ClickHouse in the best way for our customers
- You will also own the areas of managing engineering escalation management and response, investigations, post-mortem analysis including running blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of how Clickhouse is run and optimized in the cloud
- This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance ClickHouse in ClickHouse Cloud
- Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core
- Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers
- Dig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in Clickhouse Core to identify the root cause of problems and submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements
- Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for ClickHouse core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to the impacted customers
- Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities
- Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize customer impact
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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