Release Engineer – Data Plane Internal Tooling, Productivity

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🔥 1 hour ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Where this job comes from

Posted on ClickHouse's careers page, not through a job board

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ClickHouse

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2021

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $400M Series D on 2026-01

SaaS • Enterprise • Artificial Intelligence

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database and real-time data warehouse that delivers extremely fast, resource-efficient analytics at petabyte scale. ClickHouse offers both self-managed open-source software and managed cloud services (ClickHouse Cloud available on AWS, GCP, Azure), as well as complementary products like ClickHouse Managed Postgres, ClickStack (an open-source observability stack), Langfuse for LLM observability, Agentic Data Stack for AI applications, and chDB in-process SQL engine. It targets use cases such as real-time analytics, observability, data warehousing, machine learning and GenAI, and provides integrations with BI tools, data ingestion, and language clients. ClickHouse is used by enterprises across industries (e. g. , financial services, cybersecurity, e-commerce, gaming, automotive) and emphasizes performance, cost-efficiency, developer-friendliness, and open-source community adoption.

📋 Description

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters • Own the full release pipeline, from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts through post-upgrade monitoring and incident response • Investigate and resolve production issues during a regular on-call rotation • Handle snowflake clusters and edge cases not yet covered by automation • Build and improve internal tooling and automation for reliable, repeatable large-scale database operations • Collaborate with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify and solve 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 • Experience with cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or GCP • Experience with Kubernetes • Software development experience in Go, or strong experience in another language with genuine willingness to learn Go • Experience with ClickHouse preferred • Must address the right-to-work/sponsorship question for Australia

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer contributions towards your healthcare • Stock options for every new team member • Flexible time off in the US • Generous time-off entitlement in other countries • USD$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees • Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites

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