Site Reliability Software Engineer - Core Database Team

About ClickHouse

We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers.

With top adopters such as Lyft, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we.

We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!

With over 33,000 stars on GitHub, ClickHouse is the fastest and most resource-efficient open-source real-time data warehouse. Our Core Engineering teams own the heart of our ClickHouse Open Source project. We are looking for exceptional SRE/DevOps software engineers to join our remote-first, global team and continue scaling and growing our open-source and ClickHouse Cloud offerings.

What you will do:

• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to design and develop highly resilient and performant systems at scale.
• Use your understanding of distributed systems to identify and resolve low-level challenges quickly. Dive into complex issues such as networking, load balancing and hardware maintenance and demonstrate your troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Identify bottlenecks and repetitive patterns in existing support processes and reduce costs by introducing better automation.
• Participate in existing cluster operations, including monitoring cluster health, investigating issues, and resolving bugs. This commitment extends to providing on-call support.
• Contribute to our Open-Source repos

What you bring along:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a development-focused DevOps role.
• Experience with highly distributed systems and databases/data stores.
• Proficiency in Python or Go.
• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and containers, Bash and administration tools.
• A comprehensive knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Readiness to occasionally read code in C++ for reference and a better understanding of our internals.
• Knowledge of standard algorithms and data structures.

Compensation

This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant. 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 distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees
• 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 all countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Employee-driven international mobility- we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations)

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 200 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

We look for candidates who are:

• Motivated by doing great work as part of a team :)
• Open to learning from others and sharing with others
• Team Players: helpful, resourceful, responsive
• Respectful and see feedback as an opportunity to grow

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? We are a one year old company therefore we are excited to be building it together at the moment. Our first 200 employees are the culture shapers of our future. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s important to us, and to find out if you’d like to come and contribute to building our culture with us!

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