Senior Software Engineer, ClickHouse
Clickpipes (CDC/Streaming)
+ 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
+ Equity
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 industry experience building data-intensive software solutions
- Proficient in Go, or experienced in systems programming with willingness to ramp up quickly in Go
- Cloud-native experience deploying and operating services on at least one major cloud platform (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Practical experience with Kubernetes
- Strong problem solver and solid production debugging skills
- Clear communication in writing (design docs, code review) and verbally (technical discussions, customer calls, incident response)
Desirable
- Experience with database replication technologies (CDC, logical replication)
- Experience with durable execution frameworks (Temporal)
- Experience with data formats and protocols (Avro, Parquet, Protobuf)
- Experience with modern data processing frameworks (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink)
- Experience with maintaining/contributing to open-source software
What the job involves
- As a member of this team, you will be solving complex database-related challenges and distributed systems problems, such as understanding database internals to optimize snapshotting strategy, handling schema evolution during live replication, managing data type compatibility across systems, maintaining low end-to-end latency under unpredictable loads, and leveraging durable execution frameworks to ensure data consistency over unreliable networks
- We work in the open — our database integrations are built on PeerDB, an open-source CDC platform we actively maintain and contribute to
- Design and develop high-throughput integrations with databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB), data lakes (Iceberg, Delta Lake), and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake)
- Handle edge cases in real-world production scenarios: unconventional database setups, internals of data types, database upgrades/failovers, large transactions, etc
- Design integration solutions to enable users to fully harness ClickHouse's performance and throughput
- Debug complex issues in production leveraging runtime diagnostics (e.g. pprof, parca) and observability tools (e.g. metrics, logging, tracing)
- Build and improve infrastructure and tools to increase system reliability, reduce incident response time, and simplify/automate operations
- Write clear documentation, both publicly and internally
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Work directly with customers to understand integration requirements and discover gaps in existing product
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure operational efficiency
- Lead technical discussions and influence product roadmaps
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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