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Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (Netherlands/UK/Germany)Not explicitly statedPosted 6mo ago

About the role

Reliability Engineer for ClickHouse Core on the Core Team, responsible for building and leading processes to ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse in Cloud; collaborates with Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support, and Operations; owns 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 common customer issues in ClickHouse Core, identify root causes, submit bug fixes and proposals for 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 and issue resolution 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 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.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, global team and partnering with the business to move it forward.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Skills

Required:Reliability engineeringIncident response and post-mortemsMonitoring and observabilityRoot cause analysisOn-call management

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment – remote-friendly, globally distributed (20+ countries).
  • Healthcare – employer contributions.
  • Equity in the company – stock options for new team members.
  • Time off – flexible time off in the US, generous entitlements elsewhere.
  • $500 home office setup for remote employees.
  • Global gatherings – opportunities to participate in company-wide offsites.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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