Cloud Platform Engineer - Control Plane

About ClickHouse

We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers.

With top adopters such as Lyft, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we.

We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!

The Control Plane team is responsible for providing the administrative APIs used to create, read/describe, update, delete, and list (CRUDL) ClickHouse Cloud resources. The team also owns among other products the Billing pipeline, monitoring dashboards, support portal, OpenAPI and SQL console editor with AI features.

Our team is looking for exceptional software engineers who can work on a variety of technologies including frontend and backend while integrating with other systems. The team focuses on great user experience, (reliability, scalability, privacy, security, observability) while helping our customers make data-driven decisions.

What you will do:

• Design, implement and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure cloud-based infrastructure in AWS (EKS, SQS, DocumentDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Lambdas)
• Automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
• Define and implement strategies for load balancing, auto-scaling, disaster recovery, and failover for cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration, scalability, and security of cloud environments.
• Enhancing DevX
• Helping with instrumentation of cloud monitoring and alerting solutions
• Work with the security team to implement security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), network security, encryption, and compliance controls within the cloud infrastructure.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
  
  

What you bring along:

• 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering or related roles.
• Strong proficiency in Typescript, Serverless, EKS, SQS, RDBMS, Node.JS (Proficiency in multiple languages preferred).
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, networking, and security.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and JSON.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
  
  

Bonus Points:

• Proficiency with frontend frameworks (React).
• Experience with ClickHouse
  
  

New York Area / San Francisco Area - Salary Range

$157,000—$232,000 USD

General US Remote Salary Range

$133,450—$197,200 USD

Los Angeles, CA / Washington, DC - Salary Range

$141,300—$208,800 USD

Seattle, WA - Full Salary Range

$141,300—$208,800 USD

Compensation

This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant. For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location.

The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees
• 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 all countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
• Employee-driven international mobility- we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations)
  
  

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 200 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

We look for candidates who are:

• Motivated by doing great work as part of a team :)
• Open to learning from others and sharing with others
• Team Players: helpful, resourceful, responsive
• Respectful and see feedback as an opportunity to grow
  
  

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? We are a one year old company therefore we are excited to be building it together at the moment. Our first 200 employees are the culture shapers of our future. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what's important to us, and to find out if you'd like to come and contribute to building our culture with us!

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