Senior Backend Engineer

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🏛️ District of Columbia, New York, +2 more states – Remote

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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ClickHouse

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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

• Own and optimize Langfuse’s ingestion pipeline for throughput, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency • Design ClickHouse schemas and optimize merge strategies, batch inserts, and analytical queries • Build backend abstractions and infrastructure-heavy features such as LLM-as-a-Judge, scalable alerting, client-code execution, and batch dataset operations • Operate Langfuse Cloud across multiple production environments • Support deployments ranging from Docker Compose to enterprise-grade Helm charts • Run load tests against production data to validate schema, migration, and query optimizations • Prototype table designs, run them in parallel on real traffic, and compare performance before committing • Plan infrastructure for 10x scale and evolving agent observability and real-time evaluation needs • Collaborate with the ClickHouse database engineering team and users on scaling challenges

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering skills with interest in database internals, query optimization, and distributed systems • Experience with analytical databases, data pipelines, or high-throughput event processing • ClickHouse experience is a plus but not required • Comfortable reading and writing TypeScript and SQL • Interest in open source software • Genuine enjoyment talking to users about their scaling challenges • Ability to self-organize and form strong opinions about what to build and how to ship it • Ability to thrive in a small, accountable team • CS or quantitative degree preferred • Bonus: experience with ClickHouse, other OLAP databases, or observability infrastructure • Bonus: former founder experience • Bonus: background building data-intensive systems at scale

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment and remote-friendly work culture • 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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