Kubernetes Operator Engineer, ClickHouse
Data Plane Ops
+ Stock Options
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
Job no longer available
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
- Software development experience in Go
- Experience developing kubernetes operators
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills
- 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
- You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
- Experience with ClickHouse preferred
What the job involves
- At the heart of ClickHouse Cloud is a Kubernetes operator
- This operator manages thousands of databases, and is deployed in three clouds and dozens of regions and Kubernetes clusters
- The operator is responsible for provisioning new ClickHouse clusters, managing users and permissions, configuration, backups, upgrades and much more
- As part of our team, you will play a key role in evolving this critical component
- You'll design and implement new features to support the growing complexity and scale of our cloud platform, while ensuring the operator remains robust, testable, and easy to maintain
- Work deep inside Kubernetes to design and develop new features and improvements for the clickhouse-operator
- Work closely with the autoscaling team and the core team to make sure new features are integrated seamlessly into the operator
- Educate and support other teams so that they can contribute to the operator codebase
- Be part of the on-call rotation and investigate issues in our ClickHouse Cloud production environment
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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