175K–235K USD / year
Database Research Scientist
DataRemote — United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands
Published on 2026-10-02
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About this role
Conduct applied research to improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and capabilities of open-source database systems. Develop and evaluate new algorithms and system designs, then work with engineering teams to bring successful ideas into production.
About the company
ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database built for real-time analytics on large volumes of data.
The team
ClickHouse Labs
Stack
ClickHousePostgreSQLCC++RustZigAWSGoogle Cloud Platform
What you'll do
- Research improvements to database performance, scalability, reliability, and functionality.
- Design and evaluate algorithms, data structures, and system architectures.
- Build research prototypes and production-grade implementations.
- Analyze workloads, performance traces, benchmarks, and production telemetry.
- Design rigorous experiments across realistic workloads and hardware.
- Collaborate with engineers to integrate research into open-source and production systems.
- Communicate findings through reports, open-source contributions, presentations, and publications.
What we're looking for
- Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant field, with research experience in databases, distributed systems, systems software, or machine learning systems.
- Strong publication record at leading peer-reviewed research venues.
- Experience with database internals or other large systems codebases.
- Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, Zig, or a comparable systems language.
- Strong analytical, experimental, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience developing or operating databases in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with large language models, reinforcement learning, learned optimization, or machine learning systems.
- Contributions to large open-source systems projects.
- Experience with formal methods, profiling and debugging tools, or hardware acceleration for database systems.
Benefits
- Company stock options
- Flexible time off in the US
- $500 remote home-office setup allowance
- Employer contributions toward healthcare
- Company-wide offsites