Release Engineer - Data Plane Internal Tooling and Productivity
Own large-scale ClickHouse cluster upgrades and production operations while building tooling that improves release safety and automation. The role requires 5+ years operating stateful distributed systems, cloud and Kubernetes experience, strong debugging skills, and Go development experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters, ensuring safety, correctness, and minimal customer impact.
- Own the full release pipeline, including pre-upgrade validation, staged rollouts, post-upgrade monitoring, and incident response.
- Investigate and resolve production issues during a regular on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation cannot yet handle.
- Build and improve internal tooling and automation for reliable, repeatable large-scale database operations.
- Partner with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and develop solutions.
- Support and educate engineering teams using internal tools.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production, such as databases, message queues, or storage systems.
- Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores at scale.
- Strong production debugging skills and comfort investigating unfamiliar systems under pressure.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Software development experience in Go, or strong experience in another language with willingness to learn Go.
Nice to Have
- Experience with ClickHouse as a user, operator, or contributor.
Compensation and Benefits
- Equity through company stock options.
- Healthcare contributions.
- Flexible time off.
- USD $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites.
Skills
Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, Distributed Systems, Database Operations, Production Debugging, Release Engineering
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