Senior Cloud Performance Engineer
Build tools and practices for benchmarking, optimizing, and testing the resilience of large-scale distributed cloud database systems. The role requires 6+ years of software development experience, strong distributed-systems expertise, cloud infrastructure knowledge, and production debugging skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Benchmark system and database performance, analyze results, size capacity, and optimize systems.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications, server errors, and logs; triage issues accordingly.
- Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
- Partner with core development, cloud, and security teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance.
- Plan and drive chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
- Develop, deploy, and manage tools for systematically running chaos experiments and measuring their impact.
- Study 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 industry 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 architectures.
- Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
- Experience leading and delivering large-scope technical projects collaboratively.
- Expertise with a public cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings.
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
- Strong ownership, responsibility, and accountability.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment for remote employees.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options.
- Flexible or country-specific time off.
- USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide offsites.
Skills
Go, C, C++, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Distributed Systems, Chaos Engineering, Database Benchmarking, Multithreading, Capacity Planning, Production Debugging
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