Release Engineer – Data Plane Internal Tooling, Productivity

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Plan and implement rolling upgrades across numerous ClickHouse clusters.

• Take ownership of the complete release pipeline, including pre-upgrade validation, staged rollouts, and post-upgrade monitoring and incident management.

• Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation.

• Manage snowflake clusters and edge cases not yet automated.

• Develop and enhance internal tools and automation to ensure reliable and repeatable large-scale database operations.

• Collaborate with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify and address operational challenges.

• Provide support and training to engineering teams utilizing internal tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in managing stateful distributed systems in production, such as databases, message queues, or storage systems.

• Practical experience in executing upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores at scale.

• Strong skills in production debugging.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience with Kubernetes.

• Software development experience in Go, or significant experience in another programming language with a genuine willingness to learn Go.

• Previous experience with ClickHouse is preferred.

• Must address the right-to-work/sponsorship question for Australia.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employer contributions towards your healthcare.

• Stock options available for every new team member.

• Flexible time off policy in the US.

• Generous time-off entitlement for employees in other countries.

• USD$500 home office setup allowance for remote workers.

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues during company-wide offsite events.