Senior Backend Engineer - HyperDX

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