Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer
Hybrid (Germany)Full-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior software engineer to build and maintain ClickHouse's cloud-native, serverless database infrastructure, collaborating with core development and data plane teams to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability in a cloud environment.
Responsibilities
- Build a cutting-edge cloud-native database platform on top of the public cloud.
- Work on our in-house Kubernetes operator to support seamless infrastructure management.
- Improve the metrics pipeline and build systems to generate better statistics and recommendations.
- Work closely with our ClickHouse core development team and other data plane teams, partnering with them to support infrastructure use cases as well as other internal infrastructure improvements.
- Architecting and building a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Production experience with programming languages like Go, C++ or Java
- You are not a stranger to PagerDuty On-call, debugging things in production and are a strong problem-solver
- Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g., EC2).
- Experience with Data Storage, Ingestion, and Transformation (Spark, Kafka or similar tools).
- You are passionate about solving data problems at Scale.
- Experience working with distributed systems
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within and across engineering teams.
Skills
Required:Distributed systemsGoKubernetesCloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)Data streamingOn-call / production debugging
Nice to have:C++Java
Benefits
- Flexible work environment – remote-friendly with global distribution (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 events.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About ClickHouse
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