Database Reliability Engineer – Core Team
ClickHouse
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Australia
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Reliability EngineeringQuality AssuranceClickHouseSQLShell scriptingPythonC++Distributed databasesProduction debuggingIncident response
Soft skills
Problem-solvingResponsibilityOwnershipAccountabilityCommunicationCollaborationFast-paced environmentCustomer focusTeamworkProcess improvement
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science