About the role

Senior Backend Engineer at ClickHouse building a petabyte-scale observability platform focused on developer experience. Collaborating on backend systems and infrastructure for real-time data applications.

Responsibilities

Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data.

5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure.
Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks).
Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
Experience with Go is a plus — you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services.
Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
A passion for open source and the developer community.
Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers.

Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
A $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.