Database Reliability Engineer – Core Team

About the role

Join ClickHouse’s Core team as a Database Reliability Engineer, helping to build and lead processes that ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse in the cloud. You will work closely with Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support and Operations teams to guide optimal implementations for customers.

Key responsibilities

• Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core.
• Develop metrics and alerts to detect and prevent production problems before they affect customers.
• Investigate common customer issues, identify root causes, submit bug fixes and suggest improvements.
• Enhance incident response and conduct blameless post‑mortems for core‑related outages.
• Plan and drive Chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
• Manage on‑call processes, establish escalation best practices, and minimize customer impact.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in reliability engineering, QA, or customer‑facing engineering.
• Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.
• Strong understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, especially ClickHouse.
• Scripting experience with Shell or Python and ability to read C++ code.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Excellent problem‑solving and production debugging skills.
• High sense of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
• Excellent communication skills.

Required skills

• ClickHouse
• SQL
• Shell scripting
• Python
• C++
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud Platform

What we offer

• Flexible, remote‑friendly work environment across more than 25 countries.
• Employer‑contributed healthcare benefits.
• Equity through stock options.
• Flexible time off (US) or generous entitlement elsewhere.
• USD 500 home‑office setup for remote employees.
• Global gatherings and company‑wide offsites.
• Opportunity to shape culture in a rapidly scaling start‑up.