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Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

ClickHouse
Backend Developer • Senior • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Amsterdam (remote)
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ClickHouse is seeking a Senior Cloud Performance Engineer to help build the cloud-native ClickHouse Cloud Platform that aims to transform the OLAP space. The ideal candidate is a distributed systems performance engineer with a strong background in database benchmarking, test automation, system engineering, performance analysis, and capacity management, who will also drive Chaos Engineering initiatives across the platform.

Stack

AWSAzureC#GCPGoJavaKubernetes

Responsibilities

  • ▹Benchmark system performance, analyze database performance, 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
  • ▹Partner with the core development, cloud, and security teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance
  • ▹Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across engineering teams based on internal priorities
  • ▹Develop, deploy, and manage tools to run chaos experiments and measure their impact
  • ▹Study software resilience, operational, and delivery problems and extend the backend to enable Chaos Engineering

Requirements

  • ▹6+ years of relevant software development experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • ▹Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar
  • ▹Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and deployment of distributed system architectures
  • ▹Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
  • ▹Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects with multiple engineers
  • ▹Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and its IaaS offerings (e.g. EC2)

Soft skills

Excellent communication skillsStrong problem-solving and production debugging skillsPassionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governanceHigh level of responsibility, ownership, and accountabilityThrives in a fast-paced environment

What we offer

  • ▹Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
  • ▹Employer contributions towards healthcare
  • ▹Stock options for every new team member
  • ▹Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries
  • ▹$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees
  • ▹Company-wide offsites and global gatherings

About the company

ClickHouse is a fast-growing private cloud company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, with more than 3,000 customers and ARR growth of over 250 percent year over year. It is a market leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads, recently backed by a $400M Series D round. The company is globally distributed and remote-friendly, operating in over 20 countries.