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From the employer's careers site First seen 4 Nov 2026

Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform

ClickHouse San Francisco Remote senior full-time

Salary

$147K - $238K per year

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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

Nice to have

  • Kafka
  • Kinesis
  • Pub/Sub
  • S3
  • GCS
  • Azure Blob Storage

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickhouse/e6ea501b-70dc-4d50-8e53-68ec87139b6d

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