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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focused on architecting, building, and operating a scalable, secure cloud infrastructure for ClickHouse Cloud, enabling multi-cloud, multi-region data plane services and SaaS offerings.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
  • Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management.
  • Work closely with our ClickHouse core database development team, and security team and partner with them to produce the SaaS offering.
  • Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service.
  • Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
  • Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infra, zero trust network, etc.
  • Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
  • Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language.
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
  • Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with envoy and Istio.
  • Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
  • Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers.
  • Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a global team.
  • Strong problem-solver with solid production debugging skills.
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment and partners with the business to move the business forward.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsGo/C++/JavaCloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)Kubernetes
Nice to have:Service mesh / Envoy / Istio

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment - remote-friendly 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 elsewhere.
  • A $500 Home office setup for remote employees.
  • Global Gatherings – opportunities for in-person company-wide offsites.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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