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To continue this, we are building out our Site Reliability Engineering team in ClickHouse Core. As one of the first members of our Reliability Engineering Team at Core, you will be responsible for building and leading processes to ensure and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of ClickHouse. You will collaborate with different teams like Control Plane, Dataplane,Security, Support and Operations and guide them to implement ClickHouse in the best way for our customers. You will also own the areas of managing engineering escalation management and response, investigations, post-mortem analysis including running blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of how Clickhouse is run and optimized in the cloud. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance ClickHouse in ClickHouse Cloud.\nWhat will you do?\nContinuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse core.\n\nImprove and create metrics and alerts for ClickHouse to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers.\n\nDig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in Clickhouse Core to identify the root cause of problems and submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements.\n\nEnhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for ClickHouse core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to the impacted customers.\n\nPlan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.\n\nManage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize customer impact.\n\nAbout you:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.\n\nAt least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA or customer facing engineering.\n\nPrevious experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production.\n\nExcellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus.\n\nScripting experience with Shell or Python,and ability to read and understand C++ code.\n\nKnowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.\n\nYou are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.\n\nYou thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team, and you see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.\n\nYou have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.\n\nExcellent communication skills\n\nPerks\nFlexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.\n\nHealthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.\n\nEquity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.\n\nTime off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.\n\nA USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.\n\nGlobal Gatherings - We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.\n\nCulture - We All Shape It\nAs part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.\nAre you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out ourblog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.\nEqual Opportunity & Privacy\nClickHouse 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.\nPlease see here for our Privacy Statement.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4215,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Flexible time off","Home office","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data Warehouses & Lakehouses","Databases & DBMS"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T19:17:45Z"}],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.398,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":179,"expected_fill_days":71,"reasons":["conf:0","evergreen","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/clickhouse-database-reliability-engineer-core-team-7","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/clickhouse-database-reliability-engineer-core-team-7.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T02:21:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2043,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2957,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}