# Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** ClickHouse, SQL, Python, Shell, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, Distributed Systems, Chaos Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-04-02

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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