Careers
Are you passionate about ClickHouse, big data, and open source software? Do you want to work with the hottest data warehouse technology on the planet? Would you like to join a great team starting out on the path to something really big?
We are Altinity™, a fast-growing database startup with a distributed team spanning California to Eastern Europe. Our business is to make customers successful with ClickHouse, the leading open source data warehouse. Our customers range from ambitious startups to some of the most well-known enterprises on the planet. And we are looking for people to join us!
If this sounds like your kind of job, contact us today. Send a resume and cover letter to hr@altinity.com
Open Positions:
Lead Customer Success Engineer
Altinity is seeking a hands-on engineer to handle pre-sales, on-boarding, and post-sales support to ensure successful ClickHouse deployments. Our customers include some of the most demanding data-driven businesses on the planet. They expect timely, professional assistance from us.
You’ll need to be an ace at sizing up ClickHouse designs and comfortable explaining them to customers, as well as giving them options for solutions. You’ll also need to be good at project management and able to communicate status clearly both to customers as well as internal teams. You are great at keeping track of customer account status. Finally, you are excited by analytic database applications and ready to do what it takes to make customers successful. Here is the required background.
- Hands-on experience with ClickHouse and a strong background in analytic applications
- Ability to assess requirements accurately and work out design options for analytic applications
- Experience doing demos and working hand-in-hand with clients to develop solutions
- Able to manage multiple projects and ensure clear communication to all participants
- Sufficient Linux system administration as well as DBA skills sufficient to be productive without need of additional engineers
- Background in enterprise sales and/or customer success
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
This is a full-time position and includes an equity position in the company. Candidates may work anywhere in North America with East Coast locations preferred. There are substantial career growth opportunities.
Data Warehouse Support Engineer
Altinity is looking for an experienced database engineer to help scale our rapidly growing 24×7 support to ClickHouse users. Our customers include some of the most demanding data-driven businesses on the planet. We give them all the assistance necessary to keep their ClickHouse applications running.
We’ll expect you to diagnose problems, offer advice, get broken systems working again, and interact with engineering to fix problems. You’ll help customers in all phases of the deployment life cycle starting with ClickHouse evaluation through application design, deployment, and operation of business critical analytic applications. Here are some of the skills you need to possess:
- Excellent ClickHouse DBA skills as well as experience with analytic applications
- Deep SQL database experience including all facets of operation
- Strong problem diagnosis skills extending from OS level through applications
- Ability to prioritize tasks and track multiple customer tasks independently
- Great people skills and ability to work through problems with customers calmly and professionally
- Very good communication in both oral and written English
Most important, you have a desire to dig into data warehouse applications and do whatever it takes to ensure our customers have a great experience with ClickHouse.
This is a full-time position and includes an equity position in the company. Candidates may work anywhere in North America that allows them to cover working hours in the US. This position includes on-call duties.
Altinity Cloud Engineer
We are looking for engineering talent to deliver a new breed of analytic software that merges the convenience of cloud management with screaming fast analytics. Here’s how to figure out if you fit.
You are a hands-on self-starter. You know cloud technology best practices from system design to monitoring. You can independently design, implement, and support critical cloud services. You work easily with distributed engineers. You have the following qualifications:
- Outstanding programming skills in one or more of C++, Golang, Java, Node.js
- Component design and implementation including API and UI design
- Background in data management including scaling, storage, and availability
- Demonstrated success building public facing, multi-tenant services
- Hands-on experience in public Cloud infrastructure, VMware, or Kubernetes
- Comfortable working in a distributed team following open source dev practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication
Most important, you want to build something great with outstanding colleagues.
This is a full-time position and includes equity position in the company. You may work anywhere you have work permits but we prefer candidates within North America and Europe.
Altinity Site Reliability Engineer
We are looking for engineers to help us run data platforms in the cloud. Here’s how to tell if you fit. You are interested in all things cloud. You know how to manage public-facing cloud services that are fast, highly available, and secure . You work easily with remote engineers. You have the following qualifications:
- Deep operational skills with AWS, GCP, and/or Kubernetes
- Outstanding background in networking, storage, and virtualization
- Excellent coding skills in Go and/or Python
- Highly experienced at automating cloud service deployment using CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and Ansible
- Able to set up and operate monitoring/eventing for service-oriented architectures
- Comfortable working in secure environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI)
- Can calmly troubleshoot misbehaving systems in conjunction with engineering
This is a full-time position and includes an equity position in the company. We are 100% remote. You may work anywhere you have work permits but we prefer candidates within North America. This position has on-call responsibilities.
Altinity Test Engineer
As a test engineer at Altinity, you will be working to help us deliver high-quality analytic data services across all environments. Along with other testing professionals, you will be testing features in the ClickHouse server as well as cloud and Kubernetes services that operate ClickHouse. We verify SQL, REST, native client APIs, and operating system-level interfaces in the stack. Much of our software is open source and our tests make heavy use of open source software and development techniques. Your test code may be publicly visible, so it has to be great.
Here is how to tell if you fit. You have unmatched motivation and are fascinated by software quality. You are an outstanding coder. You know or want to learn how to develop and run tests at every level of the stack. You can communicate and work well with a remote team.
Junior Test Engineer
You have the following qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
- Great hands-on coding skills
- Working knowledge of Python
- Familiarity with C++ and bash scripting
- Desire to learn or already familiar with modern CI/CD systems
- Passion towards quality of software testing
- Discipline to follow test processes
- Desire to make software testing your career
Intermediate/Senior Test Engineer
You have the following qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on testing experience in DBMS, cloud services, storage, or operating systems
- Excellent knowledge of Python, C++ and bash scripting
- Excellent coding skills and ability to write clean, efficient test code
- Expert at designing enterprise-level functional tests for cloud services, client libraries, or service APIs
- Experienced in using modern CI/CD systems like Gitlab
- Tenacious at figuring out ways to break software and systematic in documenting bugs
- Excellent discipline to follow test processes
- Capable of working independently with minimal supervision
Altinity test engineer positions are full-time and include an equity position in the company. We are 100% remote. You may work anywhere you have a work permit, but we prefer candidates within North America and Europe.
Data Service Security Engineer
We are looking for engineers with expertise in security for data and cloud who can help us defend against evildoers who covet our customers’ data. Here’s how to figure out if you fit.
You are a highly technical self-starter. You have practical experience with strategies to build secure cloud services. You can drive compliance to standards like SOC 2. You can implement features like authentication and authorization directly or help guide others to do so. You have the following qualifications:
- Experienced in threat analysis and mitigation strategies for SaaS
- Able to drive SOC 2 certification and ensure continued compliance (or similar standards like ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.)
- Strong background in security best practices like OWASP
- Able to communicate technical requirements crisply and guide engineering implementation
- Comfortable working in a distributed team following open source dev practices
- Implementation skills in one or more current languages like Golang or C++ a major plus
Most important, you want to build something great with outstanding colleagues.
This is a full-time position and includes equity position in the company. You may work anywhere you have work permits but we prefer candidates within North America and Europe.
Technical Writer
Altinity is seeking a great technical writer with strong database chops to create outstanding documentation for ClickHouse data warehouse. You will create content to guide developers in the use of open source ClickHouse in any environment, ranging from developer tutorials to Altinity.Cloud product documentation. You’ll need the following background:
- Great database chops including creation of sample applications with little outside guidance
- Developer skills with modern development tools and languages, including Python, Golang, Java, SQL, CI/CD pipelines, and containers
- Comfortable with open source technology and communities
- Native fluency in English
- Excellent writing skills and a talent for explaining technology
- Experience with blogging and community presentations
- Social networking skills including ability to jump in quickly on technical conversations on Twitter, Hacker News, and LinkedIn
Most important, you have empathy for developers and love creating content that makes them more productive.
This is a full-time position and includes an equity position in the company. You may work anywhere you have work permits.
