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We are seeking a Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer with deep expertise in ClickHouse, Kubernetes, GitOps, AWS/Azure, and large-scale SaaS infrastructure. This role is critical to the reliability and performance of our Observability Platform—specifically the SaaS Logs and high-throughput data pipelines powered by ClickHouse.
You will lead reliability strategy, architecture, and execution across distributed systems, helping shape how SolarWinds ingests, stores, queries, and scales massive observability datasets. This includes owning ClickHouse production clusters, designing performance-optimized schemas, ensuring high availability, and driving automation around data platform operations.
Responsibilities- Own and operate ClickHouse infrastructure—including cluster provisioning, sharding, replication, performance tuning, storage optimization, and backup/restore automation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to shape data ingestion, storage, and query performance requirements for high-volume observability workloads.
- Lead SRE initiatives around infrastructure reliability, SLAs/SLOs, observability, incident management, and post-incident learning.
- Architect and implement scalable, cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and modern SRE practices.
- Drive automation across provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and operational workflows.
- Lead and mentor SRE team members, providing direction across distributed systems, reliability engineering, and data-platform operations.
- Guide incident response for production issues, participate in on-call rotations, facilitate postmortems, and champion a culture of continuous improvement.
- Establish and enforce best practices across monitoring, telemetry, capacity planning, security, and operational excellence.
- Deep customer orientation with a strong ownership mindset.
- Experience influencing architecture and long-term technical direction.
- Exceptional communication skills—able to translate complex technical topics to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Bias for action, data-driven decision making, and problem-solving under pressure.
- Collaborative, empathetic, and committed to the growth of the team.
Required:
- Expert-level experience operating ClickHouse at scale—including performance tuning, schema design, cluster operations, replication, partitioning, RBAC, and storage optimization.
- 10+ years designing, building, and maintaining large-scale SaaS infrastructure.
- 8+ years hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure using Terraform.
- 5+ years deploying, scaling, and operating Kubernetes clusters in production.
- Strong experience with data platform infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Python or Go; solid skills in shell scripting and SQL.
- Strong background in observability (metrics, logs, tracing), system health, and proactive monitoring.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL database technologies.
- Experience with GitOps (Flux/ArgoCD), CI/CD, and automated deployment workflows.
- Understanding of security operations, encryption, key management, and cloud security principles.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving team-wide engineering excellence.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with large-scale observability platforms, monitoring pipelines, or log analytics systems.
- Experience with ClickHouse Keeper, tiered storage, or multi-cluster architectures.
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