Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with various engineering teams at ClickHouse to design and implement systems that are scalable, secure, and highly available.

• Establish and oversee service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) for ClickHouse Cloud.

• Ensure that all infrastructure components within ClickHouse Cloud, including Dataplane, Control Plane, and ClickHouse Core, are equipped with monitoring and alerting systems to facilitate prompt detection and resolution of incidents.

• Enhance and improve incident response protocols and post-mortem analyses for any outages within ClickHouse Cloud, including coordinating with the support team to communicate with affected customers.

• Continuously work on improving the reliability and performance of our ClickHouse services.

• Plan, enable, and spearhead Chaos initiatives across engineering teams based on internal priorities.

• Manage on-call processes to address performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalations to resolve issues and minimize downtime.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field.

• Prior experience using ClickHouse in a production environment.

• Hands-on experience with Go and/or Python programming languages.

• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Excellent knowledge of distributed databases and SQL, with particular expertise in ClickHouse being a significant advantage.

• Practical experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.

• Extensive experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.

• You possess strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills.

• You have a strong passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.

• You excel in a fast-paced environment and view yourself as a partner with the business, sharing the goal of advancing the company forward.

• You demonstrate a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company that is remote-friendly, currently operating in over 20 countries.

• Healthcare - Employer contributions toward your healthcare expenses.

• Equity in the company - All new team members receive stock options.

• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, with generous entitlements in other countries.

• A $500 budget for home office setup if you are a remote employee.

• Global Gatherings – We value in-person connections and provide opportunities for engagement with colleagues at company-wide offsites.