Release Engineer – Data Plane Internal Tooling, Productivity

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

📋 Description

• Plan and implement rolling upgrades for numerous ClickHouse clusters, totaling in the tens of thousands.

• Manage the complete release pipeline, encompassing pre-upgrade validation, staged rollouts, and post-upgrade monitoring along with incident response.

• Investigate and address production issues during a regular on-call rotation.

• Manage snowflake clusters and handle edge cases that have not yet been automated.

• Develop and enhance internal tools and automation for dependable, repeatable large-scale database operations.

• Collaborate with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to pinpoint and resolve operational challenges.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience managing stateful distributed systems in a production environment, including databases, message queues, or storage systems.

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

• Strong skills in production debugging.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience with Kubernetes.

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

• Preferred experience with ClickHouse.

• 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 offered in the US.

• Generous time-off entitlement provided in other countries.

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

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues during company-wide offsites.