
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote
As one of the first joiners to the newly formed Site Reliability Engineering team, you'll be responsible for the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of the cloud infrastructure running ClickHouse databases, working closely with the Control Plane, Dataplane, Core, Security, Support, and Operations teams.
Responsibilities
- ▹Collaborate with various engineering teams to design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available systems for ClickHouse
- ▹Establish and manage service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) for ClickHouse Cloud
- ▹Ensure all infrastructure components in ClickHouse Cloud (Dataplane, Control Plane, and ClickHouse Core) have monitoring and alerting in place for timely detection and resolution of incidents
- ▹Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for outages, working with the support team to communicate with impacted customers
- ▹Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse services
- ▹Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across engineering teams based on internal priorities
- ▹Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for escalation to minimize downtime
Requirements
- ▹Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- ▹At least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field
- ▹Previous experience using ClickHouse in production
- ▹Hands-on experience with Go and/or Python
- ▹Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- ▹Excellent understanding of distributed databases and SQL, with ClickHouse experience a major plus
- ▹Hands-on experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
- ▹Strong experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet
- ▹Strong problem-solving and production debugging skills
- ▹Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance
- ▹Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and act as a business partner
- ▹High level of responsibility and ownership
Soft skills
About the company
Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250% year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. Its momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Customers include Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex, alongside global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.
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