Senior Software Engineer, ClickHouse
Infrastructure - HyperDX
+ Equity
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
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Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- A backend engineer who thrives on building high-performance, distributed systems
- Passionate about reliability, scalability, and creating systems that “just work” in production
- Excited by observability, infrastructure, and making deployments effortless for both engineers and operators
- A creative problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Passionate about open source, developer tools, and the craft of building reliable systems
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (bonus for additional languages)
- Deep understanding of APIs, event-driven systems, and high-throughput data pipelines
- Proficiency in SQL and experience working with analytical databases (ClickHouse experience a plus)
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, plus Helm for managing production deployments
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and production-grade alerting practices
- A passion for building reliable, maintainable, cloud-native systems
Desirable
- Expertise in distributed systems, ingestion pipelines, and columnar databases
- Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better
- Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms in AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Knowledge of service meshes, networking, and advanced Kubernetes features
- Background in developer tooling or open-source contributions
- Experience building SDKs or integrations in multiple languages
- Familiarity with ReactJS and frontend development
What the job involves
- Build the core platform: Design and implement backend systems and APIs that power HyperDX, enabling engineers to ingest, query, and analyze observability data at massive scale
- Scale deployments and infrastructure: Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud-native systems that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance. You’ll use Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code to make deployments simple and resilient
- Ensure maintainability and operational excellence: Define best practices for CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and alerting. Drive automation across testing, scaling, and incident response to keep our platform healthy and developer-friendly
- Engineer for scale: Design and operate ingestion and data processing pipelines that remain performant, resilient, and observable—even as we grow to petabyte-level workloads
- Engage with the community: Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our roadmap
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 3 rounds)
May 2025
$350m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $650m
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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