Senior Data Engineer, Clickhouse

SpotOn

Senior Data Engineer architecting and maintaining scalable data systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams at SpotOn, aimed at empowering independent restaurants.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois, Missouri, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerETLGrafanaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesMongoDBPostgresPythonSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions for our reporting and analytics platforms.
Design and implement data pipelines, ETL processes, and integrations using ClickHouse, Streamkap, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, Kafka, and AWS.
Write and Optimize SQL queries that drive merchant reporting outcomes and improve database performance across large-scale, distributed systems.
Contribute to defining and refining system architectures, including cloud infrastructure and containerization strategies.
Implement robust data observability monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools like Grafana, Metaplane, and OpenTelemetry.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, promoting technical excellence and best practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software and data engineering experience.
Proficient in Python; experience with GO and TypeScript or JavaScript is highly beneficial.
Extensive experience with databases and data warehouses such as ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Strong understanding of real-time data streaming and messaging systems, especially Kafka.
Experience designing and implementing robust ETL pipelines and handling large-scale data migrations.
Familiarity with cloud services, especially AWS, including IAM roles, S3, RDS, and MSK.
Proven ability in performance tuning and optimization for high-volume, low-latency data systems.
Experience applying core data observability principles to create a transparent and resilient data platform.
Comfortable with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and best practices.
Deep understanding of software development best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps methodologies.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGOTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLETLdata pipelinesperformance tuningcontainerizationinfrastructure as code

Soft Skills

mentoringtechnical excellencebest practices