Senior Cloud Performance Engineer
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About the Position
Senior Cloud Performance Engineer
Singapore
About the Team
The Cloud Performance Engineering team is responsible for building a cloud-native ClickHouse Cloud Platform that will transform the OLAP space. Our team is looking for exceptional performance engineers with a proven track record of understanding the performance limits of different distributed databases and creating tools for measuring the performance and scalability of complex systems. The ideal candidate for this position is a distributed systems performance engineer with a strong background in database benchmarking, test automation, system engineering, performance analysis, and capacity management. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, serverless ClickHouse Cloud.
Responsibilities
- Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing, and optimization.
- Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs and triage accordingly.
- Recommend configuration tuning/optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
- Work closely with the ClickHouse core development team, cloud team, security team, and partner with them to improve the performance of ClickHouse Cloud.
- Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.
- Develop, deploy, and manage tools to systematically run chaos experiments and measure impact.
- Enjoy working on, and gaining a deep understanding of, large-scale distributed systems.
- Study the problems in the software resilience, operational, and delivery spaces.
- Extend our entire backend to enable Chaos Engineering techniques in the system.
- Observe running systems, and determine/prioritize innovative ways to disrupt them.
Requirements
- Experience: You have 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Technical Skills:
- Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar.
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and the deployment of distributed system architectures.
- Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
- Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
- Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
- Strong problem solver and solid production debugging skills.
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
- High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
We Offer
- 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.
- Home office setup - A USD$500 allowance 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.
About the Company
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