Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform

Job 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. You can find some of the team’s recent work highlighted in our blog: GCP Pub/Sub connector for ClickPipes is now in Private Preview Terraform & OpenAPI for ClickPipes is now Generally Available Unordered mode for GCS ClickPipes is now available We’re looking for backend engineers with experience in data-intensive systems who enjoy working across technologies. You’ll collaborate with engineering and product partners and drive projects from design through production. 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…