ClickHouse is hiring a Senior Cloud Performance Engineer to build our cloud native ClickHouse Cloud Platform and make a significant impact on its performance. You will be instrumental in benchmarking, performance analysis, capacity management, and driving chaos engineering initiatives across our distributed systems.

What You'll Do

Benchmark system performance, conduct database performance analysis, and handle capacity sizing and optimization.
Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs and triage accordingly.
Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
Work closely with the ClickHouse core development, cloud, and security teams to improve the performance of ClickHouse Cloud.
Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams.
Develop, deploy, and manage tools to systematically run chaos experiments and measure impact.
Study 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 and prioritize innovative ways to disrupt them.

What We're Looking For

6+ 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).
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
Strong problem solver with solid production debugging skills.
Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
Thrive in a fast paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business.
High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Technical Stack

Go, C/C++, Java
Kubernetes
AWS, GCP, Azure

Team & Environment

You will join the Cloud Performance Engineering team.

Benefits & Compensation

Flexible work environment - globally distributed and remote-friendly.
Healthcare - Employer contributions.
Equity in the company - stock options.
Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
$500 Home office setup for remote employees.
Global Gatherings – company-wide offsites.

Work Mode

This is a global, remote position open to candidates in Australia.

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