Senior Software Engineer, Python
ClickHouse
About ClickHouse
We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers.
With top adopters such as Lyft, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we.
We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!
About the Team
Our integrations team is a high-visibility team integral to the growth of our company and the success of our clients. This team provides an outstanding opportunity to reimagine, redesign, and apply technology to add value to the business and operations. You will work with a team of developers to design and implement responsive and scalable cloud-based services that power our beloved technology.
Our team is looking for exceptional software engineers to join at this exciting time. An ideal candidate is comfortable learning and working with different technologies, excels at creative problem solving, communicates well, and can handle a high-paced environment, focusing on integrating with other systems. This team works across multiple platforms and teams collaboratively to get the technical solutions implemented. You will help lead integration sessions with the customers and partners to derive the entities, attributes, and relationships required to implement and scale. Some of our integrations process tens of millions of events per second!
What will you do?
- Design, develop, and maintain open-source clients that integrate seamlessly with the Python ecosystem.
- Build high-performance, low-latency solutions that empower users to fully leverage ClickHouse capabilities enabling ingestion, querying, and transforming massive datasets at record speeds. The ingestion rate of 1 billion records/sec is not a limit.
- Ensure the Python client's interoperability across domains, such as data transformation (DBT), analysis (Pandas, Polaris), ORM (SqlAlchemy), ML, and more.
- Take ownership of technical design and execution, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate actively with the open-source community, contributing to discussions, addressing technical requests, and building a strong developer ecosystem.
- Partner with internal teams like database development and support to align client capabilities with broader platform goals.
About you:
- 5+ years of software development experience focusing on building and delivering high-quality, data-intensive solutions.
- Strong proficiency in Python and its ecosystem, including advanced knowledge of memory management, performance tuning, and debugging.
- Broad technical expertise. You're a generalist who has worked across various domains and is comfortable tackling complex challenges.
- Proven experience leading and delivering large-scale technical projects in collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
- A full-stack ownership mindset: you thrive in environments where you're involved in the entire software lifecycle, from design to deployment and operations.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a proven ability to debug and resolve production issues in distributed systems.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills to collaborate effectively within the team and across engineering functions.
- Passion for open-source development: actively engaging with the OSS community, advocating for users, and influencing the evolution of the database through your contributions.
Compensation
This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant. For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location.
The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.
If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.
Perks
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees
- 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 all countries.
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Employee-driven international mobility- we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations)
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of our first 200 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
We look for candidates who are:
- Motivated by doing great work as part of a team :)
- Open to learning from others and sharing with others
- Team Players: helpful, resourceful, responsive
- Respectful and see feedback as an opportunity to grow
Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? We are a one year old company therefore we are excited to be building it together at the moment. Our first 200 employees are the culture shapers of our future. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s important to us, and to find out if you’d like to come and contribute to building our culture with us!
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