About the job
About ClickHouse
Recognized on the prestigious 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse stands out as one of the most innovative and rapidly expanding private cloud companies. With a robust customer base exceeding 3,000 and an annual recurring revenue (ARR) that has surged over 250% year over year, ClickHouse spearheads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.
The company's continuous growth was recently confirmed by a $400 million Series D financing round. In the past three months, notable customers such as Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have embraced the platform or broadened their existing deployments. These clients join a distinguished roster of AI pioneers and global brands including Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.
We are on a mission to revolutionize data usage for companies. Join us on this exciting journey!
About the Team
The Release Team is dedicated to the safe and continuous delivery of ClickHouse Cloud, a managed database platform hosting tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters. We oversee the upgrades and maintenance of these clusters at scale, develop the internal tools necessary for efficiency, and serve as the final line of defense when challenges arise.
About the Role
This position offers a balanced focus on operational execution and software development. You will be responsible for the operational aspects: coordinating and executing upgrades, addressing edge cases that deviate from the standard processes, and ensuring the health of tens of thousands of clusters in production. Concurrently, you will be enhancing the systems that streamline future rollouts, making them safer and more automated. If you take pride in both crafting the playbook and executing it, including tackling the complexities, this role is tailored for you.
What You'll Do
- Plan and implement rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters, ensuring safety, accuracy, and minimal disruption to customers.
- Manage the complete release pipeline: from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response.
- Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation, including handling unique clusters and edge cases that automation cannot address yet.
- Develop and enhance the internal tools and automation that ensure reliable and repeatable large-scale database operations.
- Collaborate closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational challenges and transform them into solutions.
- Support and educate other engineering teams in utilizing our internal tools.
