Senior ClickHouse Platform Engineer

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