Release Engineer - Data Plane

5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production, such as databases, message queues, or storage systems

Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores, at scale

Strong production debugging skills; you are comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems under pressure

Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes

Experience with ClickHouse preferred (as a user, operator or contributor)

Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters, ensuring safety, correctness, and minimal customer impact

Own the full release pipeline: from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response

Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation can't yet handle

Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable

Work closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into solved problems

Support and educate other engineering teams using our internal tools