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Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote, Netherlands)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer to build a petabyte-scale observability platform with a focus on developer experience, collaborating with open-source communities and delivering scalable backend systems.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the product: Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
  • Engage with the community: Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
  • Tackle technical challenges: Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data. Build foundational services that empower engineers to crack production issues like never before.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure.
  • Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks).
  • Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
  • Experience with Go is a plus — you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services.
  • Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • A passion for open source and the developer community.
  • Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers.

Skills

Required:Backend development in TypeScript/Node.jsAPI designDistributed systems
Nice to have:Go

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 countries.
  • Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your 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 to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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