Release Engineer (ClickHouse)

Location: Remote (Global)

ClickHouse is a rapidly scaling startup building a managed database platform that powers tens of thousands of clusters.

What you will do

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across thousands of clusters while ensuring minimal customer impact.
• Own the full release pipeline, including pre-upgrade validation, staged rollouts, and post-upgrade monitoring.
• Investigate and resolve production issues as part of an on-call rotation, handling edge cases and snowflake clusters.
• Build and improve internal tooling and automation to make database operations more reliable and repeatable.
• Collaborate with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to solve operational pain points.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience running maintenance operations on live production data stores at scale.
• Strong production debugging skills and ability to navigate unfamiliar systems under pressure.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Software development experience in Go or a strong willingness to learn it.

Nice to have

• Experience with ClickHouse as a user, operator, or contributor.

Culture & Benefits

• Globally distributed and remote-friendly work environment.
• Employer contributions towards healthcare.
• Equity in the company via stock options for all new team members.
• Flexible time off policies.
• $500 home office setup stipend.
• Opportunities for in-person connection at global company offsites.