Senior Cloud Software Engineer

📋 Job Overview

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team builds and manages the foundational blocks of ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end. This includes compute, networking, security, and a multi-cloud, multi-region architecture that provides a reliable and scalable managed ClickHouse experience for ClickHouse Cloud customers. Our team is looking for highly skilled and experienced cloud infrastructure software engineers to join our team, who will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining our infrastructure.

🏢 About ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a high-performance, open-source columnar database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real time. It is designed to process millions of queries per second and terabytes of data.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior Cloud Software Engineer in the Efficiency Engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. You will work on building a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure that supports our SaaS platform.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management.
• Execute high-impact infrastructure optimization initiatives across compute, storage, and networking.
• Collaborate with the ClickHouse engineering teams to develop high-performance, reliable, and cost-effective solutions for our SaaS platform.
• Optimize cost efficiency systematically through the implementation of distributed systems and industry best practices.
• Partner with business stakeholders to design and construct tooling for cost efficiency insights.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
• Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with envoy and Istio.
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
• Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a global team.
• 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, 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