Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Product & Engineering

This role is for a Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer at ClickHouse, focusing on building and managing the foundational blocks of ClickHouse Cloud's data plane. Responsibilities include architecting scalable distributed infrastructure, developing a cloud-native platform, automating resource management, and working on routing, traffic, and security components. The role requires significant experience in building and operating distributed systems, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, and understanding of networking and security principles, including SOC2 and GDPR compliance.

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 compliance

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.
  • Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.