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Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Hybrid (Germany)Posted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer at ClickHouse (ClickStack product) focused on building a petabyte-scale, high-performance observability platform with an emphasis on developer experience. Remote from Germany.

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. You'll build the 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:TypeScriptNode.jsAPI designDistributed systemsDockerKubernetesOpen sourceDeveloper tooling
Nice to have:Go

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 offsites.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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