# Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, C++, C, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Ec2, Chaos Engineering, Distributed Systems, Multithreading, Performance Analysis, Database Benchmarking
**Posted:** 2026-02-26

> The Senior Cloud Performance Engineer benchmarks and optimizes distributed database and cloud infrastructure performance while developing chaos engineering tools and initiatives. The role requires 6+ years of experience with scalable distributed systems, programming in Go, C/C++, or Java, Kubernetes, and a major public cloud provider.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Benchmark system and database performance; perform performance analysis, capacity sizing, and optimization.
- Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs, and triage issues.
- Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with ClickHouse core development, cloud, security, and partner engineering teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance.
- Plan, enable, and drive chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
- Develop, deploy, and manage tools for systematically running chaos experiments and measuring their impact.
- Analyze large-scale distributed systems, software resilience, operational challenges, and delivery processes.
- Extend backend systems to support chaos engineering techniques.
- Observe running systems and prioritize innovative ways to test system resilience.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar languages.
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures.
- Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
- Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects with multiple experienced engineers.
- Expertise with a public cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, such as EC2.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, problem-solving, production debugging, ownership, and accountability skills.
- Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Equity in the company through stock options.
- Flexible time off; entitlement varies by country.
- USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Healthcare contributions.
- Opportunities to attend company-wide global gatherings.

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