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Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Remotefull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Remote-friendly reliability engineering role focused on building and leading processes to ensure and improve reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse in the cloud, 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 identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers.
  • Investigate root causes of customer issues in ClickHouse Core, submit bug reports and suggest improvements.
  • Enhance incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for core outages, coordinating 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 and 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.
  • Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
  • Strong understanding of distributed database internals and SQL; ClickHouse experience is a 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; customer-focused collaboration with the business.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Skills

Required:Reliability engineeringSQL databases (production)Distributed systemsScripting (Shell or Python)
Nice to have:C++ understanding

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment - remote-friendly; distributed globally.
  • 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.
  • $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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