ClickHouse is launching a strategic Postgres initiative to extend its developer-first cloud platform, enabling seamless integration of Postgres with ClickHouse for end-to-end data workflows. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build this platform, focusing on control plane services, automation, operational tooling, and developer experience.
Requirements
- Strong programming experience in Ruby, Go, or Python (or willingness to work across languages).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, APIs, and automation tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD).
- Understanding of distributed systems, data replication, and service orchestration patterns.
- Deep understanding of Postgres — configuration, extensions, operations, and performance tuning.
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services that orchestrate and manage database clusters in ClickHouse Cloud.
- Extend our platform control plane — written in Ruby, Go, and TypeScript — to support new Postgres capabilities.
- Contribute to automation and tooling that simplify cluster provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, SRE, and product teams to ensure operational excellence, performance, and reliability.
- Develop APIs and integrations that expose new Postgres functionality to customers and internal systems.
- Improve observability, deployment safety, and debugging workflows for database services.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations, contributing to the overall reliability and velocity of the team.
Other
- 6+ years in software engineering, ideally with experience building or operating database or cloud platform systems.
- Pragmatic, detail-oriented, and comfortable with both greenfield development and operational ownership.
- Happy to contribute where needed — from backend APIs and platform automation to Postgres internals and debugging.
- Strong communicator who works effectively across teams in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- You operate with a founder’s mindset — take initiative, move quickly, and care deeply about outcomes.
