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Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse, Inc. develops and supports the open-source ClickHouse OLAP database management system, designed for real-time analytics and generating analytical reports from large-scale data with high performance.

Clickhouse

Employee count: 201-500

Netherlands only

About ClickHouse

Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

Note: This position can be based remotely in any country ClickHouse has a hiring presence.

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 in ClickHouse Core. As one of the first members of our Reliability Engineering Team at Core, you will be responsible for building and leading processes to ensure and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse. You will collaborate with different teams like Control Plane, Dataplane,Security, Support and Operations and guide them to implement ClickHouse in the best way for our customers. You will also own the areas of managing engineering escalation management and response, investigations, post-mortem analysis including running blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of how Clickhouse is run and optimized in the cloud. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance ClickHouse in ClickHouse Cloud.

What will you do?

  • Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core.
  • Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers.
  • Dig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in Clickhouse Core to identify the root cause of problems and submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements.
  • Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for ClickHouse core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to the impacted customers.
  • 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 customer impact.

About you:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA or customer facing engineering.
  • Previous experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
  • Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus.
  • Scripting experience with Shell or Python,and ability to read and understand C++ code.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.
  • 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 skills

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location.

The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [email protected].

Perks

  • 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.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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Our customers are frequently confronted with the challenge of analyzing massive volumes of data in real time. Traditional database management systems often struggle to keep pace with the speed and scale required for modern analytics, leading to delays in insights and decision-making. This is precisely why ClickHouse was developed: to provide an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that empowers users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries with lightning speed. We understand that in today's data-driven world, the ability to process and analyze clickstream data, logs, and other event-based information instantaneously is not just a luxury, but a necessity for businesses to remain competitive and responsive. Our users need to perform complex analytical queries on petabytes of data and receive results in sub-second latencies, a feat that can be 100 to 1,000 times faster than conventional systems.

ClickHouse was engineered from the ground up to address these critical needs. Originating from a project at Yandex in 2009 to power their web analytics platform, the core idea was to enable real-time report generation from non-aggregated, constantly updating data. This means our customers can move beyond batch processing and unlock interactive data exploration, dashboards, and real-time monitoring. Whether it's for powering user-facing analytics in applications, conducting in-depth log analysis, building internal data warehouses for business intelligence, or enabling real-time analytics for IoT and financial services, ClickHouse provides a robust and efficient solution. We are committed to making this powerful technology accessible not just to tech-savvy internet giants, but to all enterprises looking to harness the full potential of their data. By offering ClickHouse Cloud, a secure and scalable serverless offering, we further simplify the adoption and management of real-time analytical processing, allowing our customers to focus on deriving valuable insights rather than managing complex infrastructure. Our goal is to ensure that when our customers face the deluge of ever-growing datasets, they have a reliable and extraordinarily fast tool to turn that data into actionable intelligence, driving innovation and operational excellence.

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