
Senior Backend Engineer
ClickHouse
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $130,000 - $208,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
- Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
- Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks).
- Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
- Experience with Go is a plus — you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services.
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- A passion for open source and the developer community.
- Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers.
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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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptNode.jsAPI designdistributed systemsdata modelingGobackend developmentscalable systemsdata pipelinesdeveloper tooling
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingfeedback incorporationpassion for open sourcedesign for developers