# Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, C, C++, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Ec2, Chaos Engineering, Distributed Systems, Multithreading, Database Benchmarking, Performance Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-02-26

> Leads performance benchmarking, optimization, capacity planning, and chaos engineering for large-scale distributed cloud database systems. Requires 6+ years of software development experience, strong cloud infrastructure expertise, and proficiency in systems programming and production debugging.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Benchmark system and database performance, analyze results, and optimize capacity sizing.
- Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs; triage issues accordingly.
- Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with core development, cloud, security, and partner engineering teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance.
- Plan, enable, and drive chaos initiatives across engineering teams.
- Develop, deploy, and manage tools for systematically running chaos experiments and measuring their impact.
- Study large-scale distributed systems and software resilience, operational, and delivery challenges.
- Extend backend systems to enable chaos engineering techniques.
- Observe running systems and prioritize innovative ways to test their resilience.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software development experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Software development experience in Go, C, C++, Java, or similar languages.
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed-system architecture deployment.
- Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
- Experience leading and delivering large-scope technical projects with experienced engineers.
- Expertise with a public cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings such as EC2.
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
- High ownership, responsibility, and accountability.

## Benefits
- Healthcare contributions.
- Company equity through stock options.
- Flexible time off, with country-specific entitlements.
- USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide offsites.

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