Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

ClickHouse is recognized as one of the most innovative private cloud companies, specializing in real-time analytics and data warehousing. The Database Reliability Engineer will be responsible for improving the reliability and performance of ClickHouse's core systems, collaborating with various teams to enhance incident response processes and manage on-call procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core
• Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers
• 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
• 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
• Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities
• Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize customer impact

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 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
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team, and you 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
• Excellent communication skills