Senior Software Engineer – ClickHouse Infrastructure

Our team

The ClickHouse Infrastructure team is building a managed ClickHouse platform to power analytics and real-time insights across Bloomberg. Our goal is to provide a ClickHouse-as-a-Service offering that enables teams to run fast, reliable, and cost-efficient analytical workloads without managing infrastructure themselves. As we build and evolve this platform, there is a meaningful opportunity to shape its design, capabilities, and long-term direction.

Who are we?

We are a team of engineers focused on building and operating an infrastructure platform to make ClickHouse easy to deploy, operate, and scale. We use a diverse set of languages (Python, Java, and Go) to deliver a comprehensive managed service supporting cluster lifecycle operations, observability, and self-service tooling. We partner with application teams to help them use the platform effectively, while continuously improving the reliability, performance, and usability of the service itself.

Who are you?

You’re a talented, motivated engineer who’s passionate about distributed systems and data infrastructure. You care about performance, correctness, and operability. You’re comfortable working in an evolving environment and helping shape the direction of a growing platform. You’re excited to work close to the ClickHouse engine and ecosystem and contribute upstream when it helps the broader community.

We will expect you to

• Drive the design and implementation of ClickHouse platform services (provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backup/restore, multi-tenant resource management).

• Partner with product teams to model data and tune workloads (partitioning, primary keys, sorting, compression, materialized views, projections, TTL/tiered storage).

• Develop platform features and standards that enable scalable, reliable data ingestion across teams.

• Establish best practices for analytical SQL, cost/performance optimization, and SLOs.

• Improve operational processes, automation, and documentation for a large fleet of clusters.
  
  

You’ll need to have

• 4+ years of software engineering experience in object oriented languages (eg Java, Python, Go, C++).

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

• Working knowledge of modern build and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins/Maven/Jira).

• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and multi-threaded programming.

• SQL fundamentals and understanding of basic database operations.
  
  

We’d love to see

• Experience operating ClickHouse (or similar OLAP systems suc