Senior Software Engineer, ClickHouse Cloud (Government & Regulated Environments)

Join ClickHouse, a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. We are on a mission to transform how companies use data and are seeking exceptional engineers to build the next frontier of secure, highly scalable database platforms for government and enterprise clients.

This is an exciting opportunity to architect solutions for high-performance, highly regulated systems, including environments with restricted or no internet connectivity. You will work closely with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core, and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP, and other security frameworks, while enabling our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, server-less ClickHouse Cloud capabilities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments.

What will you do?

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
• Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments.
• Collaborate closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
• Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments, ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
• Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
• Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
• Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

About you:

• Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
• 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh).
• Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures) is a strong plus.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and solid production debugging expertise.
• Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Compensation

• United States: $141,000—$208,000 USD
• US Premium Markets (e.g., SF Bay Area, NYC Metro): $157,000—$230,000 USD

These salary ranges are estimates and actual compensation may vary based on factors like education, experience, skills, location, and performance. Ranges are subject to future adjustments.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - globally distributed and remote-friendly.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions.
• Equity in the company - Stock options for all new team members.
• Time off - Flexible time off (US) and generous entitlement (other countries).
• $500 Home office setup for remote employees.
• Global Gatherings – Opportunities for in-person connection at company-wide offsites.

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