Remote Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Airgapped

Description:

• ClickHouse is seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and secure the ClickHouse Cloud database platform for airgapped environments.
• The role involves architecting secure, high-performance, and scalable solutions for classified and highly regulated systems.
• Responsibilities include working closely with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core, and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with various security frameworks.
• The engineer will design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud tailored for airgapped systems.
• The position requires designing and deploying ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments, ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
• The engineer will develop and maintain Helm Charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
• Implementing repeatable automation for building, scaling, and troubleshooting infrastructure components for disconnected operations is essential.
• The role includes optimizing ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for various deployment types.
• Secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms must be integrated.
• The engineer will develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
• Troubleshooting and resolving database performance, security, and operational issues is a key responsibility.
• Automating deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines is required.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 6+ years of relevant software development experience in building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases is required.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools such as Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, and service mesh is necessary.
• A strong understanding of airgapped architectures and data isolation is essential.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) in government environments is required.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents) is necessary.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Python or Go) for automation and integration is required.
• U.S. Citizenship is required due to U.S. federal contract requirements.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams are essential.
• Strong problem-solving skills and solid production debugging skills are necessary.
• Candidates should be passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and a strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and accountability are required.

Benefits:

• ClickHouse offers a flexible work environment with remote-first work for all employees.
• Employer contributions towards healthcare are provided.
• Every new team member receives stock options in the company.
• Employees enjoy flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in all countries.
• A $500 home office setup is provided for remote employees.
• Employee-driven international mobility is enabled, allowing relocation internationally within certain countries and timelines, subject to role requirements and work permit considerations.