Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies, recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. The Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and securing a ClickHouse Cloud database platform tailored for regulated environments, working closely with various teams to ensure compliance and high performance.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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 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
- Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures) is a strong plus
Benefits
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 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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