Senior Cloud Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments
• ▹Build deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed
• ▹Work closely with 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
• ▹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 architecture, security, and compliance audits
• ▹Troubleshoot database performance, security, and operational issues
• ▹Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines

Requirements

• ▹Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements)
• ▹6+ years of relevant software development 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)
• ▹Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration
• ▹Excellent communication skills and ability to work across engineering teams
• ▹Strong problem-solving and production debugging skills

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures)
• ▹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)

Soft skills

About the company

ClickHouse's small, specialized team builds secure, highly scalable database platforms for government and enterprise clients, aligned with strict security frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP).