# Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $130k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Fastify, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, Postgres, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Nats
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Senior Backend Engineer building petabyte-scale observability platform services and APIs in TypeScript/Node.js. Requires 5+ years backend experience, strong distributed systems skills, and a passion for developer tooling and open source.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
- Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
- Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks).
- Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- A passion for open source and the developer community.
- Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Go.
- Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or other analytical/OLTP databases.
- Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, logging pipelines, or metrics infrastructure.
- Experience with SDKs or client library design.
- Exposure to message queues, streaming systems (Kafka, NATS), or event-driven architectures.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Typical starting salary: $130,000–$208,000 USD (US); $141,000–$230,000 USD (US Premium Markets).
- Flexible work environment - globally distributed and remote-friendly.
- Employer contributions towards healthcare.
- Equity in the company - stock options for every new team member.
- Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

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