Release Engineer – Data Plane Internal Tooling, Productivity

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

📋 Description

• Strategically plan and implement rolling upgrades across numerous ClickHouse clusters while maintaining safety, accuracy, and minimal disruption to customers.

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

• Analyze and address production issues during a standard on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and edge cases in automation.

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

• Work in collaboration with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to pinpoint operational challenges and develop solutions.

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

• Coordinate and execute upgrades while ensuring the health of tens of thousands of production clusters.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Proficient debugging skills in production settings and the ability to investigate unfamiliar systems under pressure.

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

• Experience with Kubernetes.

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

• Prior experience with ClickHouse is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment with a remote-friendly work arrangement.

• Employer contributions towards healthcare.

• Stock options/equity in the company.

• Flexible time off policies in the US.

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

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

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

• Global gatherings.