ClickHouse

Senior Backend Engineer

ClickHouse

full-time

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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