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Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (United Kingdom)$0full-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Cloud Performance Engineer to join ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on performance analysis, benchmarking, Chaos Engineering, and distributed system optimization for a scalable, serverless ClickHouse Cloud platform.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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 and 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

Skills

Required:Performance benchmarkingChaos EngineeringGoConcurrency & MultithreadingCloud infrastructure / KubernetesPublic cloud platformsSystem debugging
Nice to have:C/C++Java

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
  • Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your 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 with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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