Release Engineer – Data Plane Internal Tooling, Productivity

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters
• Own the full release pipeline, from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts through post-upgrade monitoring and incident response
• Investigate and resolve production issues during a regular on-call rotation
• Handle snowflake clusters and edge cases not yet covered by automation
• Build and improve internal tooling and automation for reliable, repeatable large-scale database operations
• Collaborate with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify and solve operational pain points
• Support and educate engineering teams using internal tools

• 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
• 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
• Must address the right-to-work/sponsorship question for Australia

• Employer contributions towards your 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