Performance Engineer - Cloud Engineering - Remote

Overview

We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• You have 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).
• 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.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in all countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Employee-driven international mobility - we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish.