# Principal Database Performance Engineer - Core Engineering (C++)

**Company**: ClickHouse
**Location**: Germany
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

ClickHouse is looking for a Principal Database Performance Engineer to join the team behind its high-performance analytics database service.

In this role, you will drive performance and scalability improvements across the stack, taking on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges.

Responsibilities:

- Identify impactful performance and scalability opportunities in customer or benchmark workloads

- Architect and implement optimized database algorithms and data structures across core relational operators, indexes, query processing, memory management, and scheduling

- Drive the performance roadmap for latency, throughput, memory efficiency, and hardware utilization improvements

- Participate in the development of a complex, high-performance database system, including meticulous testing and safe production rollout

- Represent the company externally through presentations, blog posts, and community contributions

- Mentor and support junior engineers on the team

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in database performance engineering, distributed systems

- Master or PhD in databases or a related field

- Strong fluency in C++ and a background in performance-critical software or systems programming

- A track record of driving complex performance improvements end-to-end

- Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms

- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a proactive, goal-driven mindset

Perks:

- Flexible work environment

- Remote-friendly

- Healthcare

- Employer contributions towards healthcare

- Equity in the company

- Stock options

- Flexible time off

- Generous entitlement in other countries

- USD$500 Home office setup for remote employees

- Global Gatherings

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- database performance engineering
- distributed systems
- computer science fundamentals
- data structures
- algorithms

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