Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

About the role

The Cloud Engineering team builds the cloud-native ClickHouse Cloud Platform and is looking for a performance engineer with a proven track record of understanding the performance limits of distributed databases and creating tools to measure performance and scalability. The ideal candidate is a distributed systems performance engineer with a strong background in database benchmarking, test automation, system engineering, performance analysis and capacity management.

Key responsibilities

• Benchmark system and database performance, perform capacity sizing and optimization
• Troubleshoot and debug applications, server errors and logs, and triage accordingly
• Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks
• Partner with the core development, cloud and security teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance
• Plan, enable and drive Chaos Engineering initiatives across engineering teams, and develop, deploy and manage tools to run chaos experiments and measure their impact
• Deepen understanding of large-scale distributed systems and software resilience, operations and delivery
• Extend the backend to support Chaos Engineering techniques and observe running systems to prioritize ways to disrupt them

Required profile

• 6+ years of experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Software development in Go, C/C++, Java or similar
• Experience with concurrency, multithreading and distributed system architecture deployment
• Cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
• Leading large technical projects with multiple engineers
• Excellent communication skills, strong problem solving and production debugging skills
• Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance; thrives in a fast-paced environment

Required skills

• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and its IaaS offerings (e.g. EC2)
• Go, C/C++, Java or similar
• Kubernetes

What we offer

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• Healthcare employer contributions
• Stock options for every new team member
• Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement elsewhere
• $500 home office setup for remote employees
• In-person gatherings at company-wide offsites