Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team
Build and lead reliability engineering practices for ClickHouse Core, improving production performance, observability, incident response, and database operations. The role requires at least five years of reliability, QA, or customer-facing engineering experience, plus production SQL database 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, determine 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 communications.
- Plan and drive chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
- Manage on-call processes and establish escalation best practices to resolve reliability and performance issues while minimizing customer impact.
- Collaborate with Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support, and Operations teams.
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.
- Scripting experience with Shell or Python.
- Ability to read and understand C++ code.
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a global, fast-paced team.
- High ownership, responsibility, and accountability.
Nice to Have
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience with chaos engineering and post-mortem analysis.
Benefits
- Healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options.
- Flexible time off in the United States and generous leave allowances in other countries.
- USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Company-wide global gatherings.
Skills
SQL, ClickHouse, Distributed Databases, Shell, Python, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, Chaos Engineering, Incident Response, Postmortems, Production Debugging
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