Release Engineer (ClickHouse)

Location: Australia; remote

Company

ClickHouse is a rapidly scaling startup developing ClickHouse Cloud, a managed database platform operating tens of thousands of database clusters.

What you will do

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters with minimal customer impact.
• Own the release pipeline from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts through monitoring and incident response.
• Investigate production issues during an on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and edge cases not covered by automation.
• Build and improve internal tooling and automation for reliable, repeatable database operations.
• Collaborate with database and cloud infrastructure teams to resolve operational pain points.
• Support and educate engineering teams using internal tools.

Requirements

• 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 and the ability to investigate unfamiliar systems under pressure.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and Kubernetes.
• Software development experience in Go, or strong experience in another language with willingness to learn Go.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly environment with operations across more than 25 countries.
• Employer healthcare contributions.
• Stock options for new team members.
• Flexible time off in the US and generous leave entitlement in other countries.
• USD 500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to participate in company-wide offsites and global gatherings.