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Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (Australia)Full-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior role focusing on benchmarking, performance analysis, chaos engineering, and capacity management for ClickHouse Cloud platform, with emphasis on distributed systems performance in a cloud environment.

Responsibilities

  • Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization.
  • Ability to 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
  • Enjoy working on, and gaining a deep understanding of, large scale distributed systems
  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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 with solid production debugging skills.
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
  • Thrive in a fast paced environment and partner with the business to move it forward.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

Skills

Required:Distributed systems performance engineeringGo, C/C++, JavaConcurrency and multithreadingCloud infrastructure / KubernetesPublic cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)Test automation / chaos engineering toolingCross-team collaboration / communicationProduction debugging

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment – remote-friendly, distributed across 20+ countries.
  • Healthcare – Employer contributions towards healthcare.
  • Equity in the company – stock options for new team members.
  • Time off – Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
  • A $500 Home office setup for remote employees.
  • Global Gatherings – opportunities to engage in company-wide offsites.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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