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Principal Database Performance Engineer - Core Engineering (C++) at ClickHouse

Department: Engineering

Language
Setup
Remote - Germany
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

ClickHouse is hiring a Principal Database Performance Engineer to improve performance and scalability across its petabyte-scale cloud database. The role focuses on analyzing customer and benchmark workloads, architecting optimized algorithms and data structures for query execution, indexes, memory management, and scheduling, driving performance roadmaps, participating in testing and production rollout, representing the company externally, and mentoring junior engineers. Candidates need at least five years of database performance engineering or distributed systems experience, a master's or PhD in databases or a related field, strong C++ skills, and a record of end-to-end performance improvements.

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