Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

The role

You will benchmark system performance, analyze database performance, and perform capacity sizing and optimization. You will also develop tools for chaos experiments and work to improve the performance of ClickHouse Cloud.

What you will do

• Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization.
• Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs and triage accordingly.
• Recommend configuration tuning/optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
• Work closely with ClickHouse core development team, cloud team, security team and partner with them to improve the performance of ClickHouse Cloud.
• Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.
• Develop, deploy and manage tools to systematically run chaos experiments and measure impact.
• Study the problems in the software resilience, operational, and delivery spaces.
• Extend our entire backend to enable Chaos Engineering techniques in the system.
• Observe running systems, and determine/prioritize innovative ways to disrupt them.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar.
• Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and the deployment of distributed system architectures.
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem solver and solid production debugging skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• 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 – opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

About the company

ClickHouse is a globally distributed company that is remote-friendly and operates in over 25 countries.