Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies, recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. The role involves designing, deploying, and maintaining robust cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability for ClickHouse Cloud customers.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure
• Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management
• Work closely with our ClickHouse core database development team, and security team and partner with them to produce the SAS offering
• Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices
• Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infra, zero trust network, etc
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
• Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with envoy and Istio
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
• Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a global team
• 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