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Senior Cloud Engineer

ClickHouse· Engineering
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Remote$141k - $208kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Cloud Engineer focused on designing, building, and securing a ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments, including airgapped or disconnected setups, with emphasis on compliance (NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP) and scalable, high-availability architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
  • Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed.
  • Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
  • Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
  • Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
  • Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
  • Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
  • Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
  • Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
  • Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

  • Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
  • 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
  • Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh).
  • Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures).
  • Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration.
  • Strong communication, teamwork, and production debugging skills.
  • Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
  • Ability to operate in fast-paced environments and partner with business to move the business forward.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Skills

Required:Cloud platform experienceKubernetes and container orchestrationDatabases (ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)Security and compliance in regulated environmentsAutomation and infrastructure as code

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment - remote-friendly in over 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 elsewhere.
  • 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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