Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure in Harrow on the Hill

Join ClickHouse, a recognized leader on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, building fast‐growing private cloud solutions.

ClickHouse is on a mission to transform how companies use data. With 2,000+ customers and quadrupled ARR, we lead real‐time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. Our recent $350 M Series C funding highlights our momentum.

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team builds and manages the foundational blocks of ClickHouse Cloud's data plane—compute, networking, security, and a multi‐cloud, multi‐region architecture that provides a reliable, scalable managed ClickHouse experience.

What you’ll do:

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Build a cutting‐edge cloud‐native platform on the public cloud and automate our resource management.
• Collaborate closely with the core database team, security team, and partners to deliver the SAS offering.
• Improve routing, traffic components, and reliability of our cloud service.
• Apply industry and distributed‐systems best practices to systematically improve availability.
• Design and build security components and tooling: firewall, PKI, certificate infra, zero‐trust network, etc.
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure.

About you:

• 5+ years of software development experience building and operating scalable, fault‐tolerant, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands‐on experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud‐native edge or service‐mesh services, preferably with Envoy and Istio.
• History of leading and shipping large‐scope technical projects with experienced engineers.
• Strong understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles (VPNs, firewalls, load balancers).
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards (SOC 2, GDPR).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a global team.
• Strong problem‐solving and production debugging skills.
• Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
• High ownership, accountability, and responsibility.

Compensation:

For US‐based roles, a typical starting salary range is listed above. Premium market ranges may apply in certain locations as noted. Compensation may be higher or lower than posted ranges based on education, experience, location, and performance.

Perks:

• Remote‐friendly, worldwide distributed team across 20 countries.
• Healthcare coverage with employer contributions.
• Equity via stock options for all new hires.
• Flexible time off—generous entitlements in the US and beyond.
• $500 home‐office set‐up stipend for remote employees.
• Global gatherings and company‐wide offsites to foster in‐person connection.

Culture – We All Shape It:

As part of our first 500 employees, you will help shape culture. Learn more about our values and culture on our blog, LinkedIn, or the values page.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy:

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on protected characteristic.