ClickHouse Solutions Engineer

Altinity is looking for database geeks able to guide users around the globe in building ClickHouse applications. We serve a rapidly expanding customer base as well as the broader ClickHouse open source community. Your responsibilities will be divided as follows:

About the job

Responsibilities

• Support (75% of time)

• Helping build production-grade systems based on ClickHouse: advise how to design schemas, plan clusters etc. Environments range from single node setups to clusters with 100s of nodes, including Altinity.Cloud, our managed ClickHouse service.

• Working with the community – GitHub, Stack Overflow, Telegram.

• Research and development (25% of time)

• Studying new usage patterns, ClickHouse functions, & integration with other products.

• Writing tech articles – for Altinity blog and internal KB.

• Working on infrastructure projects related to ClickHouse

• Improving ClickHouse itself – fixing bugs, improving docs, creating test-cases, etc.

Qualifications

Candidates need to meet the following qualifications:

• Experience with ClickHouse is a MUST
• Expert SQL knowledge for one of: ClickHouse (preferred), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server.
• Strong Linux shell skills / bash scripting skills
• Experience with running production-grade systems
• Technical English writing and speaking skills
• Docker self-defense skills
• Basic knowledge of distributed system concepts and big data technology stacks
• Knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, C++, Java, Go)
• University degree (IT/math) or equivalent experience

The following additional qualifications are a significant plus:

• Kubernetes knowledge and operating experience
• Experience with big data stack components like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Nifi, …
• Experience with data science/data analysis
• Knowledge of SRE / DevOP stacks – monitoring/system management tools (Prometheus, Ansible, ELK, …)
• Version control using git

Our Benefits:

• Work from Anywhere, Anytime: We are not your typical nine-to-five shop! Enjoy the flexibility of working from literally wherever and whenever. Create a schedule that works for you and your family or lifestyle. Recharge your batteries with our open vacation policies.

• Cultural Diversity: We love that we get to work with passionate people from around the world. Currently, our team is made of professionals from 25 different countries!

• Career Development: We provide opportunities to learn new technologies as well as try out new roles. We also offer access to training on leading-edge technologies, plus flexible work schedules for external education.

• USA Employees Benefits: We offer comprehensive PPO health care plans for our US-based employees that are incredibly flexible to meet the needs of individuals or families. 401K with company match also available.

• Company Travel: We come together in person two to three times per year in locations across the globe. We also fund travel to conferences and encourage presentations as well as contributions to open-source communities.

• This is a full-time position and includes equity in the company.

• Altinity is venture-funded and financially stable.

• We are 100% remote. You may work anywhere you have work permits.

• Check out our many other benefits including flexible work hours, career development, and open vacation policies.

• We are eager to meet you!

• Note: Experience with ClickHouse is a MUST for this position.

• Please make sure you describe your experience with Clickhouse in your resume.

• We will not consider candidates who don't have experience with Clickhouse or don't mention this experience in their resume