Release Engineer - Data Plane Internal Tooling and Productivity

About the role

The Release Team owns the safe, continuous delivery of ClickHouse Cloud, a managed database platform running tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters. This role is an equal split between operational execution and software development: you coordinate and run upgrades while building the internal tooling that makes rollouts safer and more automated. The team also acts as the last line of defense when things go wrong.

Key responsibilities

• 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 during a regular on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation cannot yet handle.
• Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable.
• Work with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to turn operational pain points into solved problems.
• Support and educate other engineering teams using the internal tools.

Required profile

• 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 on live production data stores at scale.
• Strong production debugging skills, comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems under pressure.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Software development experience in Go (or another language with a genuine willingness to learn).
• Experience with ClickHouse is preferred (as user, operator or contributor).

What we offer

• Flexible work environment, as ClickHouse is a globally distributed, remote-friendly company operating in over 25 countries.
• Employer contributions towards healthcare.
• Stock options for every new team member.
• Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlements in other countries.
• A $500 home office setup for remote employees.
• Opportunities to meet colleagues at company-wide offsites.