senior software engineering Cloud Engineer ic 6+ yrs Remote · Posted Feb 26, 2026

Skills

Java C AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Performance Optimization Cloud Computing EC2 Distributed Systems Testing Backend Development Automation

About this role

ClickHouse is hiring a senior-level Cloud Engineer in the software engineering function as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Java, C, AWS, GCP and roughly 6+ years of relevant work.

Role: Cloud Engineer
Function: software engineering
Level: senior
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Singapore
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 6+ years
Department: Engineering
Posted: Feb 26, 2026

AI Summary

Senior Cloud Engineer focused on performance benchmarking, database analysis, and chaos engineering for ClickHouse Cloud. Benchmark system performance, troubleshoot production issues, optimize configurations, and develop tools for chaos experiments across distributed systems. Partner with core development and cloud teams to improve platform scalability and resilience.

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Job description

from ClickHouse careers

About the Team

The Cloud Engineering team is responsible for building the 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 create 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, server less ClickHouse Cloud.

What will you do?

Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization.
Troubleshoot and debug applications, server errors, logs, and triage accordingly.
Recommend configuration tuning/optimizations for performance bottlenecks.
Work closely and partner with ClickHouse's core development team, cloud team, and security team 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

About you:

You have 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
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).
You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
You are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
You Thrive in a fast paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

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