# Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $141k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, C/C++, Java, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio
**Posted:** 2026-03-27

> Designs, builds, and maintains scalable cloud infrastructure including compute, networking, and security for ClickHouse Cloud. Requires 5+ years experience with Go/C++/Java, public clouds, Kubernetes, IaC tools, and distributed systems best practices.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
- Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management.
- Work closely with our ClickHouse core database development team, and security team and partner with them to produce the SAS offering.
- Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service.
- Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
- Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infra, zero trust network, etc.
- Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure.

## Requirements

- **5+ years** of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Software development experience in **Go**, **C/C++**, **Java**, or another OOP language.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as **AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP**, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as **Terraform** or **CloudFormation**.
- Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with **Kubernetes**.
- Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with **Envoy** and **Istio**.
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
- Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a global team.
- Strong problem-solver with solid production debugging skills.

## Compensation

- Typical starting salary in the US: **$141,000—$208,000 USD**.
- In US Premium Markets (e.g., San Francisco Bay Area, New York City Metro Area): **$157,000—$230,000 USD**.
- Additional perks: flexible work environment, healthcare, equity, time off, home office setup, global gatherings.

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