Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team
Build and lead reliability practices for ClickHouse Core, improving database performance, observability, incident response, and scalability. The role requires at least five years of reliability, QA, or customer-facing engineering experience plus production SQL database operations and cloud expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse Core.
- Create and improve metrics and alerts to identify and prevent production issues before they affect customers.
- Investigate recurring customer problems, identify root causes, submit bug fixes and issue reports, and recommend improvements.
- Enhance incident response and post-mortem processes for ClickHouse Core outages, including blameless postmortems and customer communication.
- Plan and drive chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
- Manage on-call processes and establish escalation practices that minimize customer impact.
- Guide Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support, and Operations teams in deploying ClickHouse effectively.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in reliability engineering, QA, or customer-facing engineering.
- Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
- Strong understanding of distributed database internals and SQL.
- Shell or Python scripting experience.
- Ability to read and understand C++ code.
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience leading incident response, escalation management, or post-mortem analysis.
- Experience with chaos engineering initiatives.
Compensation and Benefits
- Equity through company stock options.
- Healthcare contributions.
- Flexible time off; generous entitlement outside the United States.
- USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide offsites.
Skills
ClickHouse, SQL, Distributed Databases, Shell, Python, C++, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Chaos Engineering, Incident Response, Post-Mortems, Production Debugging
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