Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Product & Engineering

This role focuses on building and managing the foundational cloud infrastructure for ClickHouse Cloud, including compute, networking, and security. The engineer will architect and deploy a scalable, highly available distributed infrastructure, automate cloud resource management, and work on routing, traffic, and security components. Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, service mesh (Envoy, Istio), and infrastructure-as-code is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
  2. Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management.
  3. Work closely with our ClickHouse core database development team, and security team and partner with them to produce the SAS offering.
  4. Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service.
  5. Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.

Skills

Required

  • Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language
  • AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Kubernetes
  • Envoy and Istio
  • network topologies, protocols, and security principles
  • cloud security best practices
  • SOC2 and GDPR

Nice to have

  • experience developing cloud infrastructure services
  • experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services
  • excellent communication skills
  • strong problem-solver
  • solid production debugging skills
  • passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance
  • thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
  • Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.