Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · EMEA · Engineering

Database Reliability Engineer for ClickHouse Core team, focusing on ensuring and improving the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse Cloud. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident response, post-mortem analysis, and driving reliability initiatives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core.
  2. Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers.
  3. Dig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in Clickhouse Core to identify the root cause of problems and submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements.
  4. Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for ClickHouse core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to the impacted customers.
  5. Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.

Skills

Required

  • Reliability Engineering
  • QA
  • Customer facing engineering
  • Operating SQL databases in production
  • Distributed database internals
  • SQL
  • Shell scripting
  • Python scripting
  • C++ code understanding
  • Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Problem-solving
  • Production debugging

Nice to have

  • ClickHouse experience
  • ClickHouse SQL expertise

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA or customer facing engineering.
  • Previous experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
  • Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus.
  • Scripting experience with Shell or Python,and ability to read and understand C++ code.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.