Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Overview

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will architect highly available and scalable ClickHouse Cloud deployments for sensitive workloads. You will collaborate with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core, and Infrastructure teams to support frameworks including NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, and IRAP.

The position requires hands-on experience building fault-tolerant systems, automating infrastructure, managing containerized database platforms, and solving complex reliability, security, and performance challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
• Build deployment automation for cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and disconnected environments.
• Partner with Dataplane and ClickHouse Core teams to maintain software parity with the existing cloud platform.
• Solve scaling, reliability, performance, and operational challenges in regulated environments.
• Deploy and operate ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and other containerized platforms.
• Implement high availability, replication, backup, and recovery capabilities.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, manifests, and related deployment tooling.
• Create repeatable automation for building, scaling, operating, and troubleshooting infrastructure components.
• Optimize database performance and storage architecture for government cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments.
• Integrate authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
• Prepare technical documentation covering system architecture, security, and compliance requirements.
• Troubleshoot database performance, security, infrastructure, and operational issues.
• Automate deployment and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Required Qualifications

• 72+ months of relevant software development experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Cassandra.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes technologies including Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, or service mesh platforms.
• Experience with containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-premises equivalents.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for infrastructure automation and systems integration.
• Strong production debugging and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering teams.
• Strong commitment to efficiency, availability, scalability, security, and data governance.
• High levels of ownership, accountability, and responsibility.

Preferred Experience

• Experience working in secure, regulated, or restricted network environments.
• Experience designing or operating air-gapped infrastructure.
• Experience deploying containerized systems in regulated government or enterprise environments.

Core Technologies

• ClickHouse.
• Kubernetes.
• Docker and OpenShift.
• Helm and Kustomize.
• Terraform and Ansible.
• Go and Python.
• AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Government cloud environments.
• Relational and NoSQL databases.
• CI/CD infrastructure automation.

Security and Compliance

You will help design infrastructure that supports regulated and sensitive workloads while contributing to compliance with security frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, and IRAP.

The work includes secure authentication, encryption, access control, compliance documentation, audit readiness, and infrastructure designed for restricted or disconnected environments.

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible and remote-friendly working environment.
• Employer contributions toward healthcare.
• Company stock options.
• Flexible time off in the United States and generous leave entitlements in other countries.
• $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to attend company-wide global gatherings and offsites.

Work Arrangement

This is a remote opportunity with ClickHouse, a globally distributed company operating across more than 20 countries. The posting does not specify a required country or regional location for applicants.