Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Engineering

This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of the ClickHouse database system, which is used for OLAP. Responsibilities include improving metrics, alerts, incident response, post-mortem analysis, and driving chaos initiatives. The role requires experience in reliability engineering, operating distributed databases, and scripting.

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
  • Distributed database internals
  • SQL
  • Shell scripting
  • Python scripting
  • C++ code understanding
  • Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Production debugging skills
  • Incident response
  • Post-mortem analysis
  • Chaos engineering

Nice to have

  • ClickHouse experience
  • Other SQL databases experience

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.