Release Engineer Data Plane

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics data warehousing observability and AI workloads.

The companys sustained accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months customers including Capital One Lovable Decagon Polymarket and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta Cursor Sony and Tesla.

Were on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

About the team

The Release Team owns the safe continuous delivery of ClickHouse Cloud a managed database platform running tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters. We are responsible for upgrading and maintaining those clusters at scale building the internal tooling that makes it possible and being the last line of defense when something doesnt go according to plan.

About the role

This role is an equal split between operational execution and software development. You are responsible for the operational side: coordinating and running upgrades dealing with edge cases that dont fit the happy path and keeping tens of thousands of clusters healthy in production. At the same time you are building and constantly improving the systems that make the next rollout safer and more automated than the last. If you find satisfaction in both writing the playbook and executing it including the messy parts this role is for you.

What youll do

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters ensuring safety correctness and minimal customer impact
• Own the full release pipeline: from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response
• Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation including snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation cant yet handle
• Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable
• Work closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into solved problems
• Support and educate other engineering teams using our internal tools

About you

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

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Compensation

For roles based in theUnited States the typical starting salary range for this position is listed certain locations such as the San Francisco Bay 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.

An individuals placement within the range will depend on various factors including (but not limited to) education qualifications certifications experience skills location performance and the needs of the business or organization.

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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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