Database Reliability Engineer – Core Team

About ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, ClickHouse serves more than 3,000 customers worldwide and continues to experience rapid growth, with annual recurring revenue increasing by more than 250% year over year.

Backed by a recent $400 million Series D funding round, ClickHouse powers data platforms for organizations ranging from fast-growing AI startups to global enterprises, including Meta, Tesla, Sony, Capital One, Airwallex, Cursor, and many more.

Our mission is to transform how organizations use data by delivering a high-performance, scalable, and reliable cloud analytics platform.

The Role

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join the ClickHouse Core team. This remote position is open to candidates based in the Netherlands, Germany, or the United Kingdom.

As one of the first members of our Reliability Engineering team, you will play a key role in improving the reliability, scalability, availability, and performance of ClickHouse Cloud. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Security, Operations, Support, Control Plane, and Data Plane teams to build resilient systems and continuously improve the customer experience.

What You’ll Do

• Continuously improve the reliability, availability, and performance of the ClickHouse platform.
• Develop and enhance monitoring, metrics, and alerting systems to proactively identify and prevent production issues.
• Investigate recurring customer issues, identify root causes, and contribute bug fixes and platform improvements.
• Lead and improve incident response processes, post-incident reviews, and blameless postmortems.
• Partner with Engineering, Support, and Cloud teams to resolve incidents and communicate effectively with customers.
• Drive chaos engineering initiatives to improve platform resilience.
• Manage and enhance on-call processes, escalation procedures, and operational best practices.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Quality Assurance, or customer-facing engineering roles.
• Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL database technologies in production environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed database systems and SQL.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Shell or Python, along with the ability to read and understand C++ code.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Excellent production troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and collaboration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What We Offer

• Flexible remote-first working environment across more than 20 countries.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Employee stock options.
• Generous paid time off and flexible vacation policies.
• $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Global company offsites and in-person team gatherings.
• Opportunity to help shape the culture of a fast-growing global technology company.

Why Join ClickHouse?

You’ll have the opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at massive scale while helping build one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud data platforms. Working alongside a globally distributed team, you’ll influence core platform reliability and directly contribute to the success of thousands of customers running mission-critical workloads.

Diversity & Inclusion

ClickHouse is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and provided equal opportunities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and make employment decisions based on qualifications, experience, and business needs, regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.