Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

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About ClickHouse
Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally rely on ClickHouse Cloud, available as open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

About The Team
The Cloud Performance Engineering team is responsible for building a cloud-native ClickHouse Cloud Platform that will transform the OLAP space. We are looking for exceptional performance engineers with a proven track record of understanding the performance limits of distributed databases and creating tools for measuring performance and scalability of complex systems. 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. This role offers a unique opportunity to impact our elastic, scalable, high-performance, serverless ClickHouse Cloud.

• Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization.
• Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs; triage accordingly.
• Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with ClickHouse core development, cloud, and security teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance.
• Plan, enable, and driveChaos initiatives across Engineering teams based on internal priorities.
• Develop, deploy and manage tools to systematically run chaos experiments and measure impact.
• Work with large-scale distributed systems and gain a deep understanding of them.
• Study problems in software resilience, operational, and delivery spaces.
• Extend our backend to enable Chaos Engineering techniques in the system.
• Observe running systems and prioritize innovative ways to disrupt them.

• 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 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 engineers.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their IaaS offerings (e.g., EC2).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem solver with solid production debugging skills.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and partners with the business to move the business forward.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, a premium market range may apply. The salary ranges reflect the minimum and maximum pay at the time of posting; actual compensation may be higher or lower and ranges may be adjusted in the future. An individual's placement within the range depends on factors such as education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. If you have questions about compensation, please contact

• Flexible work environment — ClickHouse is globally distributed and remote-friendly (20+ countries).
• Healthcare — Employer contributions towards healthcare.
• Equity — Stock options for new team members.
• Time off — Flexible time off in the US; generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 home office setup for remote employees.
• Global gatherings — Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture is shaped by all employees; as part of our first 500 employees, you will have a significant role in shaping our culture.

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