Database Reliability Engineer

Role overview

Join ClickHouse as a Database Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse. You’ll help shape ClickHouse Cloud operations through incident management, investigations, and continuous improvement.

Key missions

• Collaborate with multiple teams to implement ClickHouse for customers and provide best-practice guidance.
• Own engineering escalation management and incident response (triage, investigations, and follow-ups).
• Drive post-mortem analysis and continuous improvement of reliability and performance.
• Enhance incident response processes for ClickHouse core.

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills and solid production debugging ability.
• Strong understanding of distributed database internals and SQL (ClickHouse experience is a major plus).
• Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
• High ownership and accountability; comfortable working in a fast-paced global environment.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Scripting skills with Shell or Python, and ability to read/understand C++ code.
• At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA, or customer-facing engineering.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.