Release Engineer - Data Plane Internal Tooling and Productivity

📋 Description

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters, ensuring safety
• Own the full release pipeline: from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade
• Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation, including
• Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations
• Work closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain
• Support and educate other engineering teams using our internal tools

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production, such as databases
• Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores, at
• Strong production debugging skills; you are comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems under
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes
• Software development experience in Go (or strong experience in another language and genuine
• Experience with ClickHouse preferred (as a user, operator or contributor)

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A USD$500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to