Cloud Software Engineer - Observability Platform
Hybrid (United States)$141k - $208kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Software engineering role focused on building and operating distributed telemetry systems at ClickHouse, spanning Observability Platform and Internal Observability teams. Work involves production operations, on-call, and turning operational problems into durable software with automation.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, process, and store telemetry at very high scale.
- Own the reliability, performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage systems.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, help resolve production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes through to completion.
- Build software and automation that eliminate repetitive operational work and make the platform easier to operate.
- Identify architectural bottlenecks and help shape the roadmap for the next stage of scale.
- Work closely with product, infrastructure, and service teams across ClickHouse.
- Contribute to architecture and design reviews and help raise engineering quality across the team.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Go.
- Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD.
- Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with telemetry systems such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable technologies.
Skills
Required:GoKubernetesInfrastructure as codeCloud platformsTelemetry systems
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 for in-person company-wide offsites.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About ClickHouse
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