Senior Java Software Engineer, ClickHouse
$114.8-232k
Salary is partially dependant on applicants location. Plus equity
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Job no longer available
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$114.8-232k
Salary is partially dependant on applicants location. Plus equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in software development within the JVM ecosystem
- Proficiency in building data-intensive software solutions
- Proven expertise in JVM optimizations. A deep understanding of GC types and low-level libraries
- You are proficient in algorithms and data structures
- You are a strong problem solver and have experience troubleshooting various JVM-based frameworks
- Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
- You are a full-cycle developer with strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a distributed team and across engineering teams
- You are enthusiastic about developing OSS software together with the community. You play as a representative of the OSS community, influencing the Core product's development
What the job involves
- You will work with a global team of remote-first developers to design and implement the responsive and scalable cloud-based services that power our beloved technology
- You’ll join at an ideal time to make a significant impact
- This team works across multiple platforms and collaborates across the company to get the technical solutions implemented
- You will help lead integration sessions with the customers and partners to derive the entities, attributes, and relationships required to implement and scale. Some of our integrations process tens of millions of events per second!
- Help us to develop OSS connecting ClickHouse to anything from a simple script to complex data ingestion, transformation, and visualization tools
- Deliver frameworks and platforms that are secure, efficient, mature, and highly available that abstract away infrastructure complexity
- Create solutions that enable users to take full advantage of ClickHouse's excellent performance and throughput
- Create with purpose. Have a reason and rationale for your decisions throughout the creative process to empower you and the rest of the team to present our ideas and sell our solutions to various peers and stakeholders
- Partner with multi-disciplinary teams to define business strategies, user needs, and optimal solutions
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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