We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers.
With top adopters such as Uber, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we.
We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!
About the team:
The Observability team is fully committed to optimizing our internal systems and empowering other teams at ClickHouse by providing them with the necessary visibility to ensure optimal performance. Our overarching mission is to foster a strong observability culture, enabling all ClickHouse teams to create, monitor, and maintain systems that are not only dependable but also easily comprehensible and diagnosable. We are actively seeking exceptionally talented and seasoned software and site reliability engineers to join our dynamic team. As part of this role, you will be responsible for architecting, developing, and overseeing the observability platform we are building at ClickHouse.
What will you do:
- Design and build petabyte-scale observability platform for all engineering teams to consume.
- Develop and improve instrumentation for monitoring and logging the health and availability of services.
- Design and develop tools for metric collection, analysis and reporting.
- Educate and lead efforts to improve observability among all engineering teams.
- Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
- Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure.
About you:
- You have 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Software development experience in Go, Python, C/C++ or similar languages
- Experience with one or more Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure
- Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Temporal as well as infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
- You are passionate about observability, efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
- You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
- You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
Bonus points:
- Experience building or maintaining observability solutions, such as designing and/or building telemetry collection, transport, and storage solutions
- Familiarity with open source and/or commercial observability technologies; familiarity with solutions in metrics, logs, and tracing domains
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with other engineers.
- Experience with ClickHouse database