# Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform

**Company**: ClickHouse
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147K - $238K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Team

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.

## What will you do?

- 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.

## About you:

- 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.

- Experience with data ingestion pipelines, streaming platforms, or object storage is a plus.

## Perks

- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.

- 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.

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- distributed systems
- cloud-native architecture
- data ingestion pipelines

### Nice to have
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- Pub/Sub
- S3
- GCS
- Azure Blob Storage

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