Principal Software Engineer – Postgres

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🏈 North America – Remote

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501 - 1000 employees

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☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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💰 $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

• Lead design and implementation of advanced systems features across storage, replication, query execution, and performance optimization • Contribute to and extend Postgres internals to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency • Prototype and build extensions that expand Postgres’s core capabilities and integrate with cloud-native infrastructure • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and cloud platform teams to deliver robust, developer-friendly experiences • Profile and optimize database performance using low-level instrumentation and benchmarking • Provide technical leadership, set standards for engineering excellence, and mentor senior engineers • Drive projects from concept to production with significant autonomy and ownership

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building systems software in C/C++ or Rust • Go experience is a plus • Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL or other database engine internals, including storage, execution, or replication subsystems • Strong understanding of concurrency, operating systems, and performance engineering • Proven ability to ship large-scale systems or core infrastructure features end-to-end • Experience contributing to open-source databases or similar complex systems is highly desirable • Pragmatic problem solver with a bias for simplicity and measurable impact • Thrives in a high-autonomy, high-velocity environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment; remote-friendly • 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 engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites

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