Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres

ClickHouse

$140K — $230K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering with production-grade systems experience.
  • Solid understanding of Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning.
  • Deep hands-on experience across AWS; exposure to GCP and Azure.
  • Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container-based infrastructure.
  • Strong Go development skills or willingness to produce Go code.
  • Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Deep understanding of SLOs, incident response, and reliability improvement.
  • Operates with a founder's mentality - resourceful and impactful.

Responsibilities

  • Lead reliability and operations for ClickHouse's Postgres integration.
  • Design and implement automation for deployments and service lifecycle management.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CI/CD tools.
  • Contribute Go-based tooling to enhance automation and observability.
  • Own observability, ensuring robust alerting and metrics.
  • Drive incident management and postmortem practices for reliability.
  • Collaborate with teams to improve service operability.
  • Mentor engineers to enable effective scaling as customer adoption grows.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work environment with a globally distributed team.
  • Employer contributions toward healthcare.
  • Equity through stock options for all new team members.
  • Flexible time off policy for US employees; generous entitlements abroad.
  • $500 home office setup for remote employees.
  • Opportunities for global gatherings to foster team connections.
Full Job Description
ClickHouse is expanding its cloud data platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure-adding new capabilities that connect and extend Postgres and ClickHouse for modern data workloads. We9re hiring a Senior SRE / Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own reliability, automation, and operations as these services scale globally.

You9ll be at the center of how we run and evolve our next-generation data platform-building the automation, observability, and operational rigor that ensure a fast, secure, and dependable customer experience. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you9ll write code, shape architecture, and enable the broader engineering team to deliver with confidence and velocity.
What You9ll Do
  • Lead reliability and operations for ClickHouse9s Postgres integration - upgrades, patching, maintenance, and scaling.
  • Design and implement automation for provisioning, deployments, and service lifecycle management across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.
  • Contribute Go-based tooling and services that improve automation, observability, and developer experience.
  • Own observability and monitoring, ensuring robust alerting, metrics, and tracing across environments.
  • Drive incident management and postmortem practices that strengthen reliability and learning loops.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with platform, networking, and product teams to improve service operability.
  • Mentor and enable engineers, helping the team scale effectively as customer adoption grows.
About You
  • Experience: 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of running distributed, production-grade systems.
  • Database Operations: Solid understanding of Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning.
  • Cloud Expertise: Deep hands-on experience across AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure; comfortable navigating multi-cloud topologies.
  • Automation Skills: Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container-based infrastructure.
  • Programming: Strong Go development skills (or willingness to write and own production Go code).
  • Observability: Familiar with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalents.
  • Reliability Focus: Deep understanding of SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement in service reliability.
  • Mindset: You operate with a founder9s mentality - hands-on, resourceful, and willing to dive deep to get things done. You take pride in hard work, autonomy, and shipping impactful systems.
Why Join Us
  • Build and operate the foundation for ClickHouse9s Postgres integration / extension, spanning multiple CSPs.
  • Work on a small, elite team where ownership, reliability, and speed are core values.
  • Shape the operational practices and automation that will define how ClickHouse runs databases in the cloud.
  • Write production code, influence architecture, and mentor others - all while scaling a high-impact platform from the ground up.
  • Be part of a company redefining performance, simplicity, and developer experience in data infrastructure.


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The typical starting salary for this role in the US is

$140,000-$208,000 USD

The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is

$155,000-$230,000 USD

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 individual9s 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 you9re 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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