Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

ClickHouse is recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list and is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. The Cloud Performance Engineering team is responsible for building cloud native ClickHouse Cloud Platform that will transform the OLAP space. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, serverless ClickHouse Cloud.

Responsibilities

Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization; Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs and triage accordingly; Recommend configuration tuning/optimizations for performance bottlenecks; Work closely with ClickHouse core development team, cloud team, security team and partner with them 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

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 and 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 with the shared goal of moving the business forward; High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

Nice to have

Kubernetes

Benefits

Flexible work environment; Healthcare employer contributions; Equity in the company in the form of stock options; Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries; $500 Home office setup for remote employees; Global Gatherings and company-wide offsites