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As a primary entry point for customers’ data, ClickPipes is critical to product adoption and the company’s growth. We work at petabyte scale, solving challenges in distributed systems, fault tolerance, and high-throughput ingestion. You’ll help make these pipelines performant, reliable, and easy to operate, with ownership of technical decisions and the platform as a whole.\nYou can find some of the team’s recent work highlighted in our blog:\nGCP Pub/Sub connector for ClickPipes is now in Private Preview\n\nTerraform & OpenAPI for ClickPipes is now Generally Available\n\nUnordered mode for GCS ClickPipes is now available\n\nWe’re looking for backend engineers with experience in data-intensive systems who enjoy working across technologies. You’ll collaborate with engineering and product partners and drive projects from design through production.\nWhat will you do?\nBuild and evolve integrations with streaming platforms and object storage, including Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage.\n\nContinuously improve our systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements.\n\nDrive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions that impact our platform's scalability and resilience.\n\nParticipate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents.\n\nAbout you:\n5+ years of software development experience building and operating distributed systems.\n\nStrong knowledge of Go and its ecosystem.\n\nExperience designing systems for scalability and fault tolerance, with an understanding of concurrency, consistency, and failure recovery.\n\nUnderstanding of cloud-native architecture and practical experience with at least one major cloud provider.\n\nExperience diagnosing and resolving production issues in distributed systems.\n\nAbility to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate across engineering and product teams.\n\nExperience with data ingestion pipelines, streaming platforms, or object storage is a plus.\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":3481,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Flexible time off","Home office","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data & Analytics","Big Data","Database Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T11:34:11Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":77,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":238000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/clickhouse-senior-backend-engineer-clickpipes-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/clickhouse-senior-backend-engineer-clickpipes-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T07:15:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}