Senior Cloud Performance Engineer- Remote at ClickHouse

ClickHouse is seeking a Senior Cloud Performance Engineer to join their Cloud Performance Engineering team. This team is responsible for building the cloud-native ClickHouse Cloud Platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in database benchmarking, test automation, system engineering, performance analysis, and capacity management.

The role involves benchmarking system performance, performing database performance analysis, capacity sizing, and optimization. The engineer will troubleshoot application and server errors, recommend configuration tuning, and collaborate with various teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud's performance. They will also plan and drive Chaos initiatives, develop tools for chaos experiments, and study problems in software resilience.

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
• Study the problems in the software resilience, operational, and delivery spaces
• Extend the 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.

ClickHouse offers:

• Flexible work environment
• Healthcare
• Equity in the company
• Flexible time off
• Home office setup stipend
• Employee-driven international mobility