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Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

Builds and improves reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse core services. Manages on-call, incident response, post-mortems, chaos engineering, and collaborates across teams. Requires 5+ years in reliability engineering and ClickHouse/SQL database experience.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core.
  • Improve and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers.
  • Dig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in Clickhouse Core to identify root cause, submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements.
  • Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for ClickHouse core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to impacted customers.
  • Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.
  • Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize customer impact.

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.
  • Previous experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
  • Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus.
  • Scripting experience with Shell or Python, and ability to read and understand C++ code.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Strong problem-solver with solid production debugging skills.
  • Thrive in fast-paced environment as part of global team.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Skills

ClickHouseSQLPythonShellC++AWSAzureGCPDistributed SystemsChaos Engineering

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