# Cloud Software Engineer - Observability Platform

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $141k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse
**Posted:** 2026-03-27

> Builds and operates scalable observability platforms handling trillions of events daily, focusing on reliability, performance, and automation. Requires 5+ years experience, Golang proficiency, Kubernetes, IaC tools, cloud providers, and observability stack like OpenTelemetry/Prometheus.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that power observability across ClickHouse Cloud
- Own reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our telemetry pipeline and storage systems
- Take part in the on-call rotation and help drive root-cause resolution and long-term fixes
- Build tooling and automation to eliminate repetitive operational work
- Help shape the roadmap for observability by identifying bottlenecks and scaling challenges
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to improve their observability posture
- Contribute to design discussions, architecture reviews, and mentor teammates

## What we’re looking for

- Strong bias for action and ownership — you ship, fix, and improve systems proactively
- Great production debugging skills and a problem-solving mindset
- Strong communication skills; comfortable working in a remote, async-friendly team
- Experience balancing system performance, reliability, and cost
- Ability to iterate quickly: build MVPs, collect feedback, and improve continuously

## Requirements

- 5+ years building and running production systems at scale
- Proficiency in **Golang**
- Experience with **Kubernetes**, **Helm**, **ArgoCD**, and **Terraform** or similar IaC tools
- Comfortable working with at least one major cloud provider (**AWS**, **GCP**, **Azure**)
- Experience with **OpenTelemetry**, **Prometheus**, **Grafana**, or similar tools
- Experience with **ClickHouse** preferred

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