# Cloud Software Engineer - Observability Platform

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Argo Cd, AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, TypeScript
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> Build and operate high-scale distributed observability systems spanning telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and cloud infrastructure. The role requires 5+ years of production systems experience, strong Go skills, and hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and observability tooling.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, process, and store telemetry at very high scale.
- Own the reliability, performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations, resolve production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes to completion.
- Build software and automation that eliminates repetitive operational work and improves platform operability.
- Identify architectural bottlenecks and help shape the roadmap for future scale.
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and service teams.
- Contribute to architecture and design reviews and raise engineering quality across the team.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Go.
- Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD.
- Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with telemetry systems such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable technologies.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience with high-throughput ingestion, streaming, queueing, or storage systems.
- Experience building multi-tenant cloud services.
- Experience optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost.
- Experience with TypeScript.

## Compensation and Benefits
- USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Healthcare contributions, company equity, and flexible time off.

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