Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform
About The Position
The ClickPipes team builds the services that power data ingestion into ClickHouse Cloud. 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. We’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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience building and operating distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of Go and its ecosystem.
- Experience designing systems for scalability and fault tolerance, with an understanding of concurrency, consistency, and failure recovery.
- Understanding of cloud-native architecture and practical experience with at least one major cloud provider.
- Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues in distributed systems.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate across engineering and product teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with data ingestion pipelines, streaming platforms, or object storage is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve integrations with streaming platforms and object storage, including Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage.
- Continuously improve our systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements.
- Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions that impact our platform's scalability and resilience.
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Employer contributions towards your healthcare
- Stock options
- Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
- A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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