Cloud Software Engineer - Observability Platform

ClickHouse

$130K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Go programming language.
  • Experience with Kubernetes for service management.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD.
  • Hands-on experience with major cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate distributed systems for high-scale telemetry processing.
  • Own reliability, performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and resolve production incidents.
  • Develop software and automation to minimize repetitive operational tasks.
  • Identify architectural challenges and contribute to scaling roadmap.
  • Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams across ClickHouse.
  • Engage in architecture and design reviews to enhance team engineering quality.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment across 20+ countries with remote options.
  • Employer contributions to healthcare coverage.
  • Stock options available for all new team members.
  • Flexible time off policy in the US and generous leave in other countries.
  • $500 allowance for home office setup for remote employees.
  • Opportunities for global gatherings and company-wide offsites.
Full Job Description
ClickHouse is looking for an experienced engineer to join our Observability organization. We are hiring across two closely aligned teams: Observability Platform and Internal Observability. Together, these teams build and operate the systems behind ClickHouse's internal observability and ClickStack Cloud. Our platforms process trillions of events per day, sustaining throughput in the hundreds of millions of events per second. The experience we gain operating observability at ClickHouse scale feeds directly back into the platform and product we provide to customers. The Observability Platform team builds shared systems for telemetry ingestion, durable buffering, processing, storage, autoscaling, and service provisioning. The Internal Observability team operates ClickHouse's company-wide observability platform and works with engineering teams to improve reliability, debugging, and operational efficiency. This is a software engineering role at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations. You will build systems, operate what you build, respond to incidents, and turn recurring operational problems into durable software and automation. Your background may be in backend engineering, infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering. What matters most is your ability to solve ambiguous production problems, make sound engineering tradeoffs, and take ownership from design through operation. What you'll do • Design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, process, and store telemetry at very high scale. • Own the reliability, performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage systems. • Participate in the on-call rotation, help resolve production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes through to completion. • Build software and automation that eliminate repetitive operational work and make the platform easier to operate. • Identify architectural bottlenecks and help shape the roadmap for the next stage of scale. • Work closely with product, infrastructure, and service teams across ClickHouse. • Contribute to architecture and design reviews and help raise engineering quality across the team. How you work • You take ownership and proactively improve the systems around you. • You are comfortable debugging unfamiliar distributed systems in production. • You make pragmatic tradeoffs between reliability, performance, delivery speed, and cost. • You communicate clearly in a remote, async-friendly environment. • You prefer incremental delivery: ship a focused solution, validate it in production, and improve it based on evidence. • You address the underlying cause of operational problems rather than repeatedly treating the symptoms. Technical experience • 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale. • Strong proficiency in Go. • Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes. • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD. • Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Hands-on experience with telemetry systems such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable technologies. Bonus points • Experience with ClickHouse. • Experience with high-throughput ingestion, streaming, queueing, or storage systems. • Experience building multi-tenant cloud services. • Experience optimizing infrastructure for both performance and cost. • Experience with TypeScript. #LI-Remote Compensation For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed. These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments. An individual's placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization. If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [redacted]. Perks • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 countries. • 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 other countries. • A $500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee. • Global Gatherings - We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

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