Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ClickHouse
+ Stock Options Grant
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Open for applications
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options Grant
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 Site Reliability Engineering or a related field
- Previous experience using ClickHouse in production
- Coding experience with Go and/or Python
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Excellent understanding of distributed databases and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
- Strong experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet
- You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills
- You are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance
- 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 and interpersonal 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
- As one of the first joiners to our Reliability Engineering Team at ClickHouse, you will be responsible for building and leading processes to ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure that runs ClickHouse databases
- You will collaborate with different teams like Control Plane, Dataplane, Core, Security, Support and Operations and guide them to design and implement scalable, secure, highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems
- You will also own the areas of incident management and response, post-mortem analysis including running blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of our ClickHouse services
- You will be leveraging your software engineering expertise to develop software platforms and tools to optimize the operational and engineering efficiencies of ClickHouse Cloud
- This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, serverless ClickHouse Cloud
- Collaborate with various engineering teams in ClickHouse to design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available systems for ClickHouse
- Establish and manage service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) for ClickHouse Cloud
- Ensure all the infrastructure components in ClickHouse Cloud (including Dataplane, Control Plane and ClickHouse Core) have monitoring and alerting in place to ensure timely detection and resolution of incidents
- Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for any outages in ClickHouse Cloud including working with the support team to communicate to the impacted customers
- Continuously improve the reliability and performance of our ClickHouse services
- 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 downtime
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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