# Core Software Engineer (C++) - Remote

NOTE: this role can be located anywhere ClickHouse has a hiring presence. With over 49,000 stars onGitHub, ClickHouse is the fastest and most resource efficient open-source database for real-time apps and analytics. Our Core Engineering teams own the heart of our ClickHouse Open Source project. We are looking for exceptional C++ engineers to join our remote-first, global team and continue to scale and grow both our open source and ClickHouse Cloud offerings. More specifically, our Performance Engineering team is seeking engineers who love optimizing the performance of distributed systems. What will you do? As part of the ClickHouse Core Performance team, you will analyze and optimize the performance of the core ClickHouse database. The team works on many different topics such as query optimization, distributed query optimization, relational operators (e.g. aggregation and joins), caching, and low-level optimizations like SIMD instructions. You will ensure that the database performance does not deteriorate over time by extending existing and adding new performance tests, based on real-world or synthetic datasets. You will serve as a resource for the Support Engineering team, helpi

- **Id**: 583641
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clickhouse-dev-core-software-engineer-c-remote>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-01-16T17:55:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-01-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T04:36:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 298
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4464
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Flexible time off, Home office, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Warehouses & Lakehouses, Databases & DBMS

## Company

- **Id**: 3448
- **Name**: ClickHouse
- **Domain**: clickhouse.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clickhouse>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 51
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.608
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 65
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 195000
- **Max**: 260000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 260000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 298

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T00:51:39Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T15:13:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.287
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 298
- **Expected fill days**: 65
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 260000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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