Senior Cloud Engineer

Role Description

Join a small, specialized team building ClickHouse's next frontier — secure, highly scalable database platforms for government and enterprise clients across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Our team is looking for exceptional engineers to design, develop, deploy, and secure a ClickHouse Cloud database platform across a variety of regulated and mission-critical environments.

This is an exciting opportunity to architect solutions for high-performance, highly regulated systems, including environments with restricted or no internet connectivity. This role involves architecting secure, resilient, and scalable solutions tailored for sensitive workloads. You will work closely with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core, and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP, and other security frameworks, while enabling our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, server-less ClickHouse Cloud capabilities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments.

What will you do?

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
• Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed.
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
• Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
• Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
• Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
• Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
• 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh).
• Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures) is a strong plus.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem solver with solid production debugging skills.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and sees themselves as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Requirements

• The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $141,000 — $208,000 USD.
• The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is $157,000 — $230,000 USD.
• Compensation may vary based on education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs.
• If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at View email address on remotive.com.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 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 $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings - Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
• Culture - As part of a rapidly scaling startup, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.