Senior Cloud Engineer Secure Deployments

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With over 2000 customers and ARR that has more than quadrupled over the past year ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics data warehousing observability and AI workloads. ClickHouses incredible momentum was confirmed in its recent $350M Series C financing that included new tier one investors Khosla Ventures BOND IVP Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. Were on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

Join a small specialized team building ClickHouses next frontier - secure airgapped deployments for government and enterprise clients who cant use public cloud. Our team is looking for exceptional engineers to design develop deploy and secure a ClickHouse Cloud database platform in airgapped is an exciting opportunity to architect solutions for environments with zero internet connectivity. This role involves architecting secure high-performance and scalable solutions tailored for classified and highly regulated systems. You will work closely with Security Dataplane ClickHouse Core and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST FedRAMP Protected B IRAP and other security frameworks while enabling our elastic limitless scale high-performance server-less clickHouse Cloud capabilities in isolated environments.

What will you do

• Design and develop a highly available scalable and secure ClickHouse Cloud tailored for airgapped systems.
• Build novel deployment automation for disconnected systems
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• Solve unique scaling challenges in classified/regulated environments
• Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability replication and backup.
• Develop and maintain Helm Charts operators and kubernetes manifests for database management
• Implement repeatable automation to build scale and troubleshoot various infrastructure components which form a part of air-gapped for disconnected operations.
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-premise hybrid and government cloud deployments.
• Integrate secure authentication encryption and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture security and compliance audits.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance security and operational issues.
• Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform Ansible or CI/CD pipelines.

About you:

• You have 6 years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB Cassandra) databases.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm Kustomize operators Istio serviceMesh)
• Strong understanding of airgapped architectures data isolation.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift) in government environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP AWS GovCloud Azure Government or on-prem equivalents).
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Python or Go) for automation and integration.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• 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

Compensation

For roles based in theUnited States the typical starting salary range for this position is listed certain locations such as Los Angeles CA the San Francisco Bay Area CA the Seattle WA Area and the New York City Metro Area a premium market range may apply as listed.

These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.

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Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• 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 $500 Home office setup if youre a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

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