Database 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:

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

Candidates need to meet the following qualifications:

• 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