Release Engineer – Data Plane Internal Tooling, Productivity

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters while ensuring safety, correctness, and minimal customer impact
• Own the full release pipeline, from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response
• Investigate and resolve production issues during a regular on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and automation edge cases
• Build and improve internal tooling and automation for reliable, repeatable large-scale database operations
• Collaborate with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and solve them
• Support and educate engineering teams using internal tools
• Coordinate and run upgrades and keep tens of thousands of clusters healthy in production

• 5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production, such as databases, message queues, or storage systems
• Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores at scale
• Strong production debugging skills and comfort investigating unfamiliar systems under pressure
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Software development experience in Go, or strong experience in another language with genuine willingness to learn Go
• Experience with ClickHouse preferred

• Flexible work environment and remote-friendly work arrangement
• Employer contributions towards healthcare
• Stock options/equity in the company
• 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
• Global gatherings