Senior Software Engineer

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With over 2,000 customers and ARR that has more than quadrupled over the past year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. ClickHouse's incredible momentum was confirmed in its recent $350M Series C financing that included new, tier one investors, Khosla Ventures, BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. We're on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey

What will you do

• Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization.

• Troubleshoot and debug applications, server errors, logs, and triage accordingly.

• Recommend configuration tuning/optimizations for performance bottlenecks.

• Work closely and partner with ClickHouse's core development team, cloud team, and security team to improve the performance of ClickHouse Cloud.

• Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities

• Develop, deploy and manage tools to systematically run chaos experiments and measure impact

• Enjoy working on, and gaining a deep understanding of, large scale distributed systems

• Study the problems in the software resilience, operational, and delivery spaces

• Extend our entire backend to enable Chaos Engineering techniques in the system

• Observe running systems, and determine/prioritize innovative ways to disrupt them

About you:

• You have 8+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.

• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar.

• Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and the deployment of distributed system architectures

• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.

• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.

• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).

• 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