Senior Software Engineer - ClickHouse

About this role

Responsibilities

• We're looking for a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to anchor our small, focused ClickHouse team. You'll own hard technical problems end to end on the platform behind our managed ClickHouse service - from database internals and backup/restore correctness to the data engineering tooling that connects ClickHouse to the wider ecosystem.
• This is a role with real technical ownership. You'll write RFCs and design documents that change how we build, scope and lead multi-quarter initiatives, and influence the product roadmap for ClickHouse and its ecosystem - streaming ingestion, CDC, benchmarking, and analytics tooling. You'll also mentor the engineers around you and raise the bar for how the team works.
• We expect you to be equally comfortable designing a new architecture and diving into a production incident - reading ClickHouse source code, untangling a replication race condition, or root-causing a flaky distributed test.
• What You'll DoDesign and lead major platform initiatives: think coordination-service migrations (ZooKeeper ClickHouse Keeper), backup/restore architecture, cluster topology, sharding, and node lifecycle management
• Build data engineering tooling around ClickHouse - streaming ingestion pipelines (Kafka ClickHouse, Postgres ClickHouse), schema conversion and evolution, integration frameworks, and fault-isolation between data sources
• Own the ClickHouse version lifecycle: qualify new LTS releases, diagnose upstream regressions, and take releases from early availability to GA
• Debug deep into the stack - ClickHouse internals (replication, access control, Me