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Mid LevelFull-timeAWSGCPAzureKubernetesGoAI
Salary Range
$102,000 - $138,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Release Engineer to join our Release Team at ClickHouse, a fast-growing cloud company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. This role involves an equal split between operational execution and software development, focusing on the safe, continuous delivery of ClickHouse Cloud.
Key Responsibilities
- →Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters, ensuring safety, correctness, and minimal customer impact
- →Own the full release pipeline: from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response
- →Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation can't yet handle
- →Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable
- →Work closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into solved problems
- →Support and educate other engineering teams using our 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; you are comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems under pressure
- ✓Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes
- ✓Software development experience in Go (or strong experience in another language and genuine willingness to learn)
- ✓Experience with ClickHouse preferred (as a user, operator or contributor)
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