Cloud Software Engineer, ClickHouse
Observability Platform
+ Equity
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Be an early applicant
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
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
- We're looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, isn't afraid to get hands-on during incidents, and knows when to automate the pain away
- While experience in roles like Software Engineer, SRE, Systems Engineer, or DevOps is valuable, we care most about your problem-solving skills and mindset
- If you enjoy tackling complex challenges across system design, infrastructure, automation, and incident response—while helping us scale with confidence—you’ll fit right in
- Strong bias for action and ownership — you ship, fix, and improve systems proactively
- Great production debugging skills and a problem-solving mindset
- Strong communication skills; comfortable working in a remote, async-friendly team
- Experience balancing system performance, reliability, and cost
- Ability to iterate quickly: build MVPs, collect feedback, and improve continuously
- 5+ years building and running production systems at scale
- Proficiency in Golang
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Comfortable working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools
- Experience with ClickHouse preferred
What the job involves
- ClickHouse is looking for an experienced engineer to join our Observability team
- We build and operate the telemetry platform that powers both internal monitoring and the observability features our customers rely on
- Our systems ingest trillions of events per day with sustained throughput in the tens of millions per second. Engineers on the team are hybrid software, systems, and infrastructure engineers who ensure this platform is reliable, scalable, and efficient
- We work closely with product and infrastructure teams and play a key role in major engineering initiatives across the company
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that power observability across ClickHouse Cloud
- Own reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our telemetry pipeline and storage systems
- Take part in the on-call rotation and help drive root-cause resolution and long-term fixes
- Build tooling and automation to eliminate repetitive operational work
- Help shape the roadmap for observability by identifying bottlenecks and scaling challenges
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to improve their observability posture
- Contribute to design discussions, architecture reviews, and mentor teammates
- As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture
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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