Cloud Database Infrastructure Engineer, ClickHouse
$133.4-232k
Salary dependent on location. Plus stock options
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
$133.4-232k
Salary dependent on location. Plus stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
- Experience building operators with Kubernetes, controller runtime
- Production experience with programming languages like Go, C++ or Java
- You are not a stranger to PagerDuty On-call, debugging things in production and are a strong problem-solver
- Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g., EC2)
- Experience with Data Storage, Ingestion, and Transformation (Spark, Kafka or similar tools)
- You are passionate about solving data problems at Scale
- Experience with Python (uv, fastAPI) Data Science (Pandas, NumPy etc) is good to have
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within and across engineering teams
What the job involves
- The Cloud AutoScaling team is dedicated to implementing robust vertical and horizontal auto-scaling capabilities within the ClickHouse cloud environment
- We seek exceptional software engineers to develop and maintain the auto-scaling infrastructure to transform ClickHouse into a fully functional serverless database solution
- Collaborating closely with the core database team, we are actively working on evolving ClickHouse into a cloud-native database system
- Additionally, we engage with other cloud teams to drive continuous improvements in cloud infrastructure for enhanced performance and scalability
- Build a cutting-edge cloud-native database platform on top of the public cloud
- Work on the autoscaling and our in-house Kubernetes operator to support seamless Vertical and Horizontal Auto-scaling
- Improve the metrics pipeline and build algorithms to generate better autoscaling statistics and recommendations
- Work closely with our ClickHouse core development team and other data plane teams, partnering with them to support auto-scaling use cases as well as other internal infrastructure improvements
- Architecting and building a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure
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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