Clickhouse
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres
San Francisco, United States · Remote (restrictions not stated) · FullTime
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- EmployerClickhouse
- LocationSan Francisco, United States
- Work styleRemote (restrictions not stated)
- Employment typeFullTime
- Employer posted
ClickHouse is expanding its cloud data platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure—adding new capabilities that connect and extend Postgres and ClickHouse for modern data workloads. We’re hiring a Senior SRE / Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own reliability, automation, and operations as these services scale globally.
You’ll be at the center of how we run and evolve our next-generation data platform—building the automation, observability, and operational rigor that ensure a fast, secure, and dependable customer experience. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll write code, shape architecture, and enable the broader engineering team to deliver with confidence and velocity.
What You’ll Do
Lead reliability and operations for ClickHouse’s Postgres integration — upgrades, patching, maintenance, and scaling.
Design and implement automation for provisioning, deployments, and service lifecycle management across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
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Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.
Contribute Go-based tooling and services that improve automation, observability, and developer experience.
Own observability and monitoring, ensuring robust alerting, metrics, and tracing across environments.
Drive incident management and postmortem practices that strengthen reliability and learning loops.
Collaborate cross-functionally with platform, networking, and product teams to improve service operability.
Mentor and enable engineers, helping the team scale effectively as customer adoption grows.
About You
Experience: 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of running distributed, production-grade systems.
Database Operations: Solid understanding of Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning.
Cloud Expertise: Deep hands-on experience across AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure; comfortable navigating multi-cloud topologies.
Automation Skills: Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container-based infrastructure.
Programming: Strong Go development skills (or willingness to write and own production Go code).
Observability: Familiar with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalents.
Reliability Focus: Deep understanding of SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement in service reliability.
Mindset: You operate with a founder’s mentality — hands-on, resourceful, and willing to dive deep to get things done. You take pride in hard work, autonomy, and shipping impactful systems.
Why Join Us
Build and operate the foundation for ClickHouse’s Postgres integration / extension, spanning multiple CSPs.
Work on a small, elite team where ownership, reliability, and speed are core values.
Shape the operational practices and automation that will define how ClickHouse runs databases in the cloud.
Write production code, influence architecture, and mentor others — all while scaling a high-impact platform from the ground up.
Be part of a company redefining performance, simplicity, and developer experience in data infrastructure.
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Perks
Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 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 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.
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
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ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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- Employment typeFullTime
- SenioritySenior
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