Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team
The Database Reliability Engineer will improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and incident response practices for ClickHouse Core. The role requires at least five years of reliability, QA, or customer-facing engineering experience, production database operations expertise, and strong scripting and debugging skills.
About the job
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 recurring customer problems, identify root causes, submit bug fixes and issue reports, and recommend improvements.
- Enhance incident response and postmortem processes for ClickHouse Core outages, including running blameless postmortems.
- Coordinate with Support and Cloud teams to communicate outage impacts to customers.
- Plan and drive chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
- Manage on-call processes and establish best practices for escalation and incident resolution.
- Collaborate with Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support, and Operations teams.
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 understanding of distributed database internals and SQL.
- Scripting experience with Shell or Python.
- Ability to read and understand C++ code.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience with chaos engineering, incident response, escalation management, and blameless postmortems.
Compensation and benefits
- Equity through company stock options.
- Healthcare contributions.
- Flexible time off in the United States and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Global company gatherings.
Skills
ClickHouse, SQL, Distributed Databases, Shell, Python, C++, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Chaos Engineering, Incident Response, Postmortems
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