ClickHouse
Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack
Canada (remote) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
TypeScriptGoNode.jsExpressDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesGrafanaDatadogAPI DevelopmentKafkaData Engineering
About the role
- About ClickHouse Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies.
Responsibilities
- Shape the product: Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
- Tackle technical challenges: Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data.
- You'll build the foundational services that empower engineers to crack production issues like never before.
- A backend engineer who excels at building reliable, performant services in TypeScript and Node.js.
- Love the freedom to create with minimal interruptions.
- Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
- Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks).
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
- A passion for open source and the developer community.
- Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers.
- Bonus Points:
- Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better.
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or other analytical/OLTP databases.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, logging pipelines, or metrics infrastructure.
- Experience with SDKs or client library design.
- Exposure to message queues, streaming systems (Kafka, NATS), or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Go is a plus - you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services.
Skills
- About ClickHouse
- Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies.
- The company's sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round.
- Join us in revolutionizing Observability for Developers!
- An open-source platform that transforms telemetry data into actionable insights.
- Imagine a world where logs, metrics, traces, and session replays come together seamlessly to pinpoint root causes faster than ever before.
Compensation
- For roles based in the United States, t he typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.
- These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting.
- The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.
- If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.
Benefits
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
- A $500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
Company info
- Engage with the community: Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
- Driven to ship features that make a tangible impact for customers.
- Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
- As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
- Are you interested in finding out more about our culture?
- Learn more about our values here.
Equal opportunity
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