Senior Cloud Engineer

ClickHouse

full-time

Posted on: 12/26/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $141,000 - $208,000 per year

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About the role

Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed.
Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
You have 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh).
Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures) is a strong plus.
Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration.
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 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.

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.

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