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Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (Australia)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior reliability engineering role focused on building and leading processes to ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse in ClickHouse Cloud. Remote-first, globally distributed, with collaboration across Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support and Operations.

Responsibilities

  • Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core.
  • Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers.
  • Dig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in Clickhouse Core to identify the root cause of problems and submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements.
  • Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for ClickHouse core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to the impacted customers.
  • Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.
  • Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize customer impact.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a 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, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus.
  • Scripting experience with Shell or Python,and ability to read and understand C++ code.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.
  • You thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team, and you see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
  • You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication skills

Skills

Required:Reliability engineeringProduction debuggingIncident response / post-mortemsOn-call management
Nice to have:Chaos engineeringSQL databases (ClickHouse a plus)

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 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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