Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Product & Engineering

Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and managing cloud infrastructure for ClickHouse Cloud, including compute, networking, security, and a multi-cloud architecture. Responsibilities involve architecting scalable distributed systems, automating cloud resource management, and improving infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and security.

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
  • production debugging skills

Nice to have

  • experience developing cloud infrastructure services
  • experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services
  • excellent communication skills
  • work well within a global team
  • strong problem-solver
  • passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance
  • thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • partner with the business
  • 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.