Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ClickHouse
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
501-1000 employees
Company mission
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
- What will you do?
- 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.
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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