Senior Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
• Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed.
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
• Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
• Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
• Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
• Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

• Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
• 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh).
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem solver with solid production debugging skills.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures).