ClickHouse is a fast-growing private cloud company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, specializing in real-time analytics and observability. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build a high-performance observability platform, focusing on backend services, data pipelines, and API design.
Responsibilities:
- Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day
- Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design
- Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks)
- Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling
- Experience with Go is a plus — you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- A passion for open source and the developer community
- Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers
- Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or other analytical/OLTP databases
- Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, logging pipelines, or metrics infrastructure
- Experience with SDKs or client library design
- Exposure to message queues, streaming systems (Kafka, NATS), or event-driven architectures