Job Description
ClickHouse is seeking a Senior Cloud Performance Engineer to join their Cloud 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.
About ClickHouseClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database system. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud.
What this role involves: - 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
- 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 have 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
ClickHouse offers: - Flexible work environment
- Healthcare
- Equity in the company
- Flexible time off
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings