Senior Cloud Engineer

ClickHouse is a fast-growing private cloud company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. The role involves designing, developing, and securing a ClickHouse Cloud database platform for government and enterprise clients, ensuring compliance with various security frameworks while addressing performance and scalability challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments
• Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure
• Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments
• Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management
• Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments
• Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues
• Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines

Requirements:

• Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements)
• 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh)
• Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures) is a strong plus
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents)
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• Strong problem solver and solid production debugging skills
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and sees themselves as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability