Backend Engineer (Go)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $147,000–$215,000 for general US locations; $167,000–$238,000 for premium US locations, plus equity.

Company

ClickHouse is a rapidly scaling software company building ClickHouse Cloud and data infrastructure for high-volume analytics.

What you will do

• Build and evolve integrations with streaming platforms and object storage, including Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage.
• Improve data ingestion systems using operational metrics, customer feedback, and business requirements.
• Drive technical discussions and contribute to architecture decisions affecting scalability and resilience.
• Operate distributed systems, participate in on-call rotations, and respond to production incidents.
• Collaborate with engineering and product partners from system design through production.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Go and its ecosystem.
• Experience designing scalable and fault-tolerant systems, including concurrency, consistency, and failure recovery.
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture and practical experience with at least one major cloud provider.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues in distributed systems.
• Clear technical communication and effective collaboration with engineering and product teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with data ingestion pipelines, streaming platforms, or object storage.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly work environment within the United States.
• Healthcare contributions from the employer.
• Stock options for new employees.
• Flexible time off.
• $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites and global gatherings.