Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack

ClickHouse is a fast-growing private cloud company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, specializing in real-time analytics and observability. The Senior Backend Engineer will build key backend services for their observability platform, ensuring reliable data pipelines and collaborating with the community to enhance the product.

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