Senior Site Reliability Engineer- Remote

Clickhouse
Netherlands
18 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Data Governance Software Debugging Distributed Data Store Distributed Systems Fault Tolerance Python (Programming Language) Network Control Reliability Engineering Cloud Services
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Ansible Software Engineering SQL Databases Google Cloud Cloud Platform System Docker Swarm Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Information Technology Vertica Puppet Terraform

Job description

We are committed to providing our customers with reliable and secure services so we are expanding our central Site Reliability Engineering team. You will be responsible for building and leading processes to ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with different teams like Control Plane, Data Plane, Core, Security, Support and Operations and guide them to design and implement scalable, secure, highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems. You will also own the areas of incident management and response, post-mortem analysis including running blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of our Cloud services. You will be leveraging your software engineering expertise to develop software platforms and tools to optimize the operational and engineering efficiencies of ClickHouse Cloud. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance ClickHouse Cloud.

What will you do?

  • Collaborate with various engineering teams in ClickHouse to design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available systems for ClickHouse.
  • Establish and manage service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) for ClickHouse Cloud.
  • Ensure all the infrastructure components in ClickHouse Cloud (including Data Plane, Control Plane,ClickHouse Core, etc) have monitoring and alerting in place to ensure timely detection and resolution of incidents.
  • Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for any outages in ClickHouse Cloud including working with the support team to communicate to the impacted customers.
  • Continuously improve the reliability and performance of our ClickHouse services.
  • Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.
  • Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize downtime.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • At least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience with Go and/or Python.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Excellent understanding of distributed databases and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus.
  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
  • Strong experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
  • 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 environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
  • You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits & conditions

  • Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
  • A USD$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.

About the company

  • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.

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