Senior DevOps Engineer, ClickHouse

• You demonstrate a strong initiative and a preference for action, high level of responsibility, ownership and accountability
• You prioritize customer needs, ensuring that our products are designed with the user in mind
• You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• You have a strong problem solving mindset and have solid production debugging skills
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams in a fully remote environment
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward
• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar that translates well
• Experience with at least one of the major Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with data streaming/message brokering systems such as Kafka, RedPanda or similar
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Temporal as well as infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform

Desirable

• The Observability team owns the observability platform that monitors internal services of ClickHouse Cloud as well as the customers' ClickHouse instances
• As a part of the team you will be responsible for designing, building, operating and maintaining components of the petabyte-scale platform that stores trillions of events and processes tens of millions new events every second, owning its reliability, performance and availability
• Our stack is built with open source technologies, such as OpenTelemetry and Grafana and of course based on ClickHouse
• In addition to the core responsibilities, the Observability team also manages the Product Metrics component of the platform
• This function is essential for gathering and processing data for the internal billing and accounting system as well as customer-facing dashboards that provide our customers with immediate insights and analytics
• The Product Metrics system is specifically designed to prioritize delivery guarantees, precision, and accuracy in handling extensive data volumes
• Its primary goal is to provide data that is both prompt and accurate, supporting reliable operational decisions and enhancing the overall customer experience
• We are looking for highly skilled software and site reliability engineers to join our team
• Take an active part in determining the roadmap for the Product Metrics component
• Work closely within the team to deliver new features, iterate and improve them
• Design, build, operate, and maintain business-critical petabyte-scale systems
• Be responsible for the performance, reliability, availability and cost-efficiency of the Product Metrics component
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Be a part of on-call rotation and take ownership of the services you're running
• Educate and lead efforts to improve observability among all engineering teams