Senior Cloud Engineer

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.

About you:

• You have 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.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• You are passionate about efficiency availability scalability and data governance.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
• You have a high level of responsibility ownership and accountability.