Senior ClickHouse Platform Engineer / SME
Location
- India (Preferred)
- Candidate should be willing to overlap with PST for critical incidents.
Experience
- 8+ years overall experience
- 3+ years hands-on ClickHouse experience
- Strong Data Engineering background
- Production support experience
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior ClickHouse Platform Engineer to support a mission-critical Microsoft telemetry and reporting platform. The resource will act as the primary ClickHouse SME responsible for platform support, troubleshooting, performance optimization, dashboard enablement, and production stability.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide L2/L3 support for ClickHouse platform issues.
- Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks across large-scale analytical workloads.
- Optimize ClickHouse queries, schemas, partitions, and materialized views.
- Support onboarding of new dashboards and reports.
- Perform root cause analysis for critical production incidents.
- Work closely with reporting and analytics teams to achieve strict performance SLAs.
- Support AKS/Kubernetes-hosted ClickHouse environments.
- Provide guidance on platform best practices and operational excellence.
- Participate in architecture and performance review discussions.
- Create operational runbooks and knowledge articles.
Mandatory Skills
- ClickHouse Administration
- ClickHouse Performance Tuning
- MergeTree Engine
- Materialized Views
- Query Optimization
- SQL
- Data Warehousing
- AKS / Kubernetes
- Linux
- Incident Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Production Support
Preferred Skills
- Microsoft Fabric
- Power BI
- Delta Lake
- ADLS Gen2
- Telemetry Analytics
- Azure Data Platform
