Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform

About this role

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 https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickpipes-gcp-pub-sub-preview

• Terraform & OpenAPI for ClickPipes is now Generally Available https://clickhouse.com/blog/terraform-ga

• Unordered mode for GCS ClickPipes is now available https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickpipes-gcs-unordered-mode

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.