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Release Engineer - Data Plane Internal Tooling and Productivity
DevOpsRemote — Australia
Published on 2026-09-09
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About this role
Operate and improve the release systems used to upgrade and maintain ClickHouse Cloud clusters at large scale. The role combines hands-on production operations, including rollout coordination and incident response, with building automation and internal tooling 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
GoKubernetesAWSAzureGCPClickHouse
What you'll do
- Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of clusters
- Own the release pipeline, from pre-upgrade validation through staged rollout and post-upgrade monitoring
- Investigate production issues and handle operational edge cases during an on-call rotation
- Build and improve internal tools and automation for reliable 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 live production data stores at scale
- Strong production debugging skills, including under pressure
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Software development experience in Go, or another language with willingness to learn Go
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 in other countries
- $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees
- Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites