Database Reliability Engineer – Core Team

🔥 1 hour ago

🇯🇵 Japan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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ClickHouse

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

• Build and lead processes to ensure and improve ClickHouse reliability, availability, scalability, and performance • Collaborate with Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support, and Operations teams to guide effective ClickHouse implementations • Manage engineering escalation management and response • Conduct investigations and post-mortem analyses, including blameless postmortems • Continuously improve how ClickHouse is run and optimized in the cloud • Improve and create metrics and alerts to identify and prevent production problems before they affect customers • Investigate common customer problems, identify root causes, submit bug fixes and issue reports, and suggest improvements • Enhance incident response and post-mortem processes for ClickHouse Core outages • Work with Support and Cloud teams to communicate with impacted customers • Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams • Manage on-call processes and establish escalation best practices to minimize customer impact

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field • At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA, or customer-facing engineering • Previous experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production • Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL; ClickHouse knowledge is a major plus • Scripting experience with Shell or Python • Ability to read and understand C++ code • Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform • Strong problem-solving and production debugging skills • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability • Excellent communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment and remote-friendly work arrangement • Employer contributions towards 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 participate in company-wide global offsites

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