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Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (Germany (remote))UnknownPosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role within ClickHouse Core Reliability Engineering to build and lead processes that ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse in ClickHouse Cloud; collaborate with Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support and Operations; own escalation management, investigations, post-mortem analysis, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core.
  • Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to identify and prevent production problems.
  • Investigate root causes of customer issues in ClickHouse Core, submit bug fixes and improvement suggestions.
  • Enhance incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for core-related outages; coordinate with support and Cloud teams to communicate with customers.
  • Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams based on internal priorities.
  • Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues; establish best practices for escalation to minimize customer impact.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA or customer-facing engineering.
  • Previous experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
  • Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL; ClickHouse experience is a major plus.
  • Scripting experience with Shell or Python; ability to read and understand C++ code.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
  • Strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, global team; ownership and accountability.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Skills

Required:Reliability EngineeringSQL databases operationsDistributed systemsScripting (Shell, Python)Cloud platformsIncident response & post-mortems

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment – globally distributed and remote-friendly (20+ countries).
  • Healthcare – employer contributions toward 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 for in-person company-wide events.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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