Senior Cloud Engineer - Product Metrics (Remote)
At a glance
Senior Cloud role at ClickHouse. Remote, United States · full-time · $155,000–$230,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Help set the Product Metrics roadmap, then ship features and improve them with your teammates
- Build and operate systems that collect, store and deliver customer-instance metrics at petabyte scale
- Protect service performance, availability, reliability and cost efficiency, and respond through the on-call rotation
- Join design discussions, mentor teammates and take responsibility for the services you run
What you bring
- At least five years building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- At least two years developing software applications with Golang
- Experience with a major cloud provider and efficiently storing, moving or retrieving large datasets
- Experience with ClickHouse and tools such as Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD or another listed technology
Who this fits
This role suits a senior engineer who likes owning production services, debugging complex issues and iterating on solutions with customer needs in mind. You’ll mentor teammates and participate in on-call coverage. The position is remote and involves collaboration with engineering groups across a distributed team.
From the employer
About the team
The Product Metrics team owns the collection, storage, and serving of metrics collected from customers' ClickHouse instances. As a part of the team you will be responsible for designing, building, operating and maintaining components of the petabyte-scale platform that stores trillions of records and processes millions of new events every second, owning its reliability, performance and availability. Our stack is built using Golang, runs in Kubernetes, and is, of course, stored in ClickHouse. The team’s responsibilities include gathering and processing data for the internal billing and accounting system as well as customer-facing dashboards that provide our customers with immediate insights and analytics. The Product Metrics system is specifically designed to prioritize delivery guarantees, precision, and accuracy in handling extensive data volumes. Its primary goal is to provide data that is both prompt and accurate, supporting reliable operational decisions and enhancing the overall customer experience.
What will you do?
Take an active part in determining the roadmap for the Product Metrics team
Work closely within the team to deliver new features, iterate and improve them
Design, build, operate, and maintain business-critical petabyte-scale systems
Be responsible for the performance, reliability, availability and cost-efficiency of the Product Metrics systems
Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
Be a part of on-call rotation and take ownership of the services you're running
What are we looking for in you?
You demonstrate a strong initiative and a preference for action, high level of responsibility, ownership and accountability
You prioritize customer needs, ensuring that our products are designed with the user in mind
You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
You have a strong problem solving mindset and have solid production debugging skills
You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams in a fully remote environment
You thrive in a fast-paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward
Requirements:
5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
2+ years of software application development experience using Golang
Experience with at least one of the major Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Experience with storing, shipping, and retrieving large volumes of data efficiently using technologies such as ClickHouse
Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Temporal as well as infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
Bonus Points:
Experience with ClickHouse
Experience writing Kubernetes operators or controllers
Experience with Kafka streaming technology
Perks
Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
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