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Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Fri, Oct 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support a growing engineering team, the full-time Senior Backend Engineer will optimize the ingestion pipeline, enhance ClickHouse performance, and build infrastructure-heavy features in a remote work environment.

Key responsibilities
  • Own and optimize the ingestion pipeline for massive volumes of tracing data, focusing on throughput, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency
  • Design schemas and optimize queries in ClickHouse to ensure fast data retrieval for dashboards and user interfaces
  • Develop new infrastructure-heavy features and conduct load tests to validate performance improvements using production data
Required qualifications
  • Strong backend engineering experience with a focus on database internals, query optimization, and distributed systems
  • Experience with analytical databases, data pipelines, or high-throughput event processing; familiarity with ClickHouse is a plus
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and SQL
  • CS or quantitative degree preferred
  • Interest in open source software and user engagement regarding scaling challenges

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