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Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands)unknownPosted 6mo ago

About the role

Remote-friendly Data Reliability Engineer role based in the UK, Germany, or the Netherlands. Part of ClickHouse Core SRE, building and leading processes to ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse in ClickHouse Cloud. Own escalation management, incident response, post-mortems, 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-facing issues and submit bug fixes, issue reports, and improvement suggestions.
  • Enhance incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for outages, coordinating with support and cloud teams to communicate to 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 and establish best practices for escalation to 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.
  • Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
  • Strong understanding of distributed database internals and SQL; ClickHouse knowledge is a major plus.
  • Scripting experience with Shell or Python; ability to read and understand C++ code.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, global team environment; strong business partnership mindset.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Skills

Required:Reliability EngineeringClickHouse / SQL databases in productionDistributed systemsScripting (Shell, Python)Cloud platformsCommunication
Nice to have:C++ understanding

Benefits

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