Senior Backend Engineer

About the Team

The ClickPipes Platform plays a critical role in driving the growth of our company and ensuring the success of our clients by seamlessly onboarding and integrating data from diverse data sources into ClickHouse. Working at a petabyte scale and in high-velocity environments, this role offers an exceptional opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, operate with significant autonomy, and make a measurable impact.

You can find some of the teams recent work highlighted in our blog:

• Flexible Scaling and Monitoring in ClickPipes
• MySQL CDC Connector for ClickPipes
• The Evolution of ClickPipes

We are looking for exceptional backend engineers who can work across a variety of technologies, with expertise in real-time data ingestion, change data capture (CDC), distributed systems, and cloud services. As a member of this team, you'll collaborate cross-functionally to build and maintain . This role is ideal for individuals who are capable of working independently, taking initiative, and driving projects forward with a high level of autonomy.

What will you do?

• Develop and enhance integrations with various data sources including streaming platforms, databases, data lakes, and object stores.
• Continuously improve our systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements.
• Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions that impact our platform's scalability and resilience.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents.

About you:

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building data-intensive software solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Golang and experience with its ecosystem. Experience with Java is a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• The ability to design and build robust ETL data pipelines that can handle large volumes of data reliably and efficiently.
• Understanding data replication methodologies like CDC.
• Good knowledge of cloud-native architecture and practical experience with at least one major CSP.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.