# Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

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

> Build and lead reliability practices for ClickHouse Core, improving production performance, observability, incident response, and scalability. The role requires at least five years in reliability, QA, or customer-facing engineering plus production database operations experience.

## Job Description

## 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 common customer issues, identify root causes, submit bug fixes and issue reports, and recommend improvements.
- Improve incident response and postmortem 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 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.
- Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
- Strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
- Excellent communication, ownership, accountability, and collaboration skills.

## Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly ClickHouse.
- Shell or Python scripting experience.
- Ability to read and understand C++ code.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options.
- Flexible time off, with country-specific entitlements.
- USD $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites.

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