Core Software Engineer, C++

🕒 January 16

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ClickHouse

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • Enterprise • Artificial Intelligence

ClickHouse is a fast and resource-efficient real-time data warehouse and open-source database that is designed to deliver superior query performance for mission-critical and time-sensitive applications. It is available as a cloud service on major platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a "Bring Your Own Cloud" option and a wide range of integrations for seamless operation within diverse tech stacks. ClickHouse excels in real-time analytics, machine learning, business intelligence, and observability, making it an ideal choice for tasks such as financial services, fraud detection, and gaming analytics. It supports developer-friendly SQL operations, offers cost-effective storage solutions, and provides an open-source alternative to traditional databases. Companies like Sony, Lyft, Cisco, GitLab, and Twilio leverage ClickHouse for its scalability, efficiency, and ease of use.

📋 Description

• As part of the ClickHouse Core Performance team, you will analyze and optimize the performance of the core ClickHouse database. The team works on many different topics such as query optimization, distributed query optimization, relational operators (e.g. aggregation and joins), caching, and low-level optimizations like SIMD instructions. • You will ensure that the database performance does not deteriorate over time by extending existing and adding new performance tests, based on real-world or synthetic datasets. • You will serve as a resource for the Support Engineering team, helping to debug the most advanced performance issues encountered by our customers. • As the core ClickHouse database continues to move at a fast pace, you will closely collaborate with our other core teams to assess the impact of new features on performance and support colleagues with performance tests and advice. • You will work with our open-source community. This will include resolving issues, reviewing and finishing PRs, answering questions from mail, chats, google groups, external Slack channels, etc.

🎯 Requirements

• You bring along solid professional software development experience in C++. This includes experience with Unix Systems. • You have strong knowledge in database internals and design. • You have experience in performance engineering, ideally in a database but other areas like high-frequency trading, simulation, real time data processing etc. are also okay. • You communicate well with others and have the ability to work well within and across engineering teams. • You are ready to work closely with our open-source community. You participate in code reviews with patience and attention to detail fostering a culture of collaboration and mutual respect. • You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills. • You are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance. • You thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment, seeing yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving forward and building together. • You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability. • Bonus points for: • Experience with ClickHouse • Experience in security, privacy, and compliance. • Experience with TCP/IP and network programming. • Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes. • Experience giving public talks at technical conferences and meetups. • Previous contributions to open source projects.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries. • Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare. • Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options. • Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries. • A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee. • Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.