Clickhouse DBA

Summary

At Santiment, we’re looking for a Clickhouse DBA to manage and optimize our Clickhouse clusters. Your main focus will be maintaining, improving, and scaling our setup, including migrating to Clickhouse Cloud and integrating with data lakes. This role is about long-term impact – no rushing features, just making sure everything runs smoothly and efficiently.

Job Description / Tasks

• Perform regular updates of our Clickhouse clusters
• Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting infrastructure for the clusters
• Participate in migration of self-hosted Clickhouse to Clickhouse Cloud
• Collaborate on the design and maintenance of data lake solutions, ensuring efficient data ingestion and retrieval
• Implement best practices for managing data across self-managed, cloud, and data lake infrastructure
• Manage user access rights
• Understand and track usage patterns of our cluster
• Assist developers by developing and maintaining tools for table management automation
• Look for inefficient queries and work with developers to optimise them
• Help developers optimise inefficient table schemas
• Take charge in deciding on cluster and table topology to meet product demand

Key Qualifications

• At least 5 years of previous software engineering experience. This requirement can be reduced if you have a strong academic record
• At least 1 year experience with Clickhouse
• Solid knowledge of SQL
• You need to be able to communicate fluently in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Clickhouse Cloud
• Experience with Snowflake or similar platforms
• Familiarity with data lake technologies and architecture (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, or self-managed object stores
• Experience with working as part of remote team

What we offer

• Fully remote team
• A chance to work at the forefront of a fast-growing industry and help demystify crypto market dynamics for the global audience.
• Fully digital work processes & flexible working hours.
• €4,000+ & other perks
• No bureaucracy or tedious processes. We are agile but don’t do scrum.
• SAN token bonuses, paid 23 vacation days + localpublic holidays, and many other perks
• We are able to offer payments in crypto (ERC-20 USDT, USDC, DAI or ETH)
• You get to join our annual team retreats. We have already met in Dubai, Berlin, Sofia, Koh Phangan, Osaka, Cancun and recently in Antalya, Marmaris and Malaysia.

How to apply

Please send your CV to [email protected] with the subject “Clickhouse DBA”.

Important! Please do include notes about your previous experience with Clickhouse.