ClickHouse, a company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list and known for its rapid growth in real-time analytics, is hiring a Cloud Engineer for its Product Metrics team. The role focuses on building and maintaining a massive data platform that handles trillions of records and processes millions of new events every second.
What the Product Metrics Team Does
The Product Metrics team at ClickHouse owns the collection, storage, and serving of metrics collected from customers' ClickHouse instances. According to the job listing on Redpoint Ventures Careers, the team is responsible for designing, building, operating, and maintaining components of a petabyte-scale platform. This platform stores trillions of records and handles millions of new events every second.
The team's responsibilities include ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of the platform. The technology stack is built using Golang, runs in Kubernetes, and stores data in ClickHouse itself.
Key Responsibilities and Use Cases
The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for gathering and processing data for the internal billing and accounting system, as well as for customer-facing metrics. This means the role directly impacts how ClickHouse tracks usage, bills customers, and provides insights to its users.
The role involves working with a stack that includes:
- Golang for backend development
- Kubernetes for container orchestration
- ClickHouse for data storage and analytics
Our Take: A Critical Role for a Growing Company
This hiring move shows that ClickHouse is investing heavily in its infrastructure as it continues to grow. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR growing over 250 percent year over year, the company needs a robust metrics platform to support billing, accounting, and customer insights. The Cloud Engineer role is not just about maintaining systems — it is about building the foundation for ClickHouse's next phase of growth. For engineers interested in working at petabyte scale with modern tools like Golang and Kubernetes, this is a compelling opportunity.
