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Release Engineer - Data Plane Internal Tooling and Productivity
DevOpsRemote — Singapore
Published on 2026-09-09
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About this role
Own safe, continuous upgrades and maintenance of ClickHouse Cloud clusters at large scale. The role balances operational execution—including rollout coordination and production incident response—with developing tools and automation to make releases safer and more reliable.
About the company
ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database built for real-time analytics on large volumes of data.
The team
Release Team
Stack
ClickHouseGoKubernetesAWSAzureGCP
What you'll do
- Plan and execute rolling upgrades across thousands of production clusters
- Manage the release pipeline, from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to monitoring and incident response
- Investigate production issues during the on-call rotation, including unusual clusters and cases not covered by automation
- Build and improve tooling and automation for reliable large-scale database operations
- Work with database and cloud infrastructure teams to address operational pain points
- Support and educate engineering teams using internal tools
What we're looking for
- 5+ years operating stateful distributed systems in production
- Hands-on experience upgrading or maintaining production data stores at scale
- Strong production debugging skills, including under pressure in unfamiliar systems
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Software development experience in Go, or another language with willingness to learn
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse as a user, operator, or contributor
Benefits
- Employer contributions toward healthcare
- Company stock options
- Flexible time off in the US and generous time off elsewhere
- $500 home-office setup budget for remote employees
- Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites