Senior Database Engineer

About HighLevel:

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have :1200 employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/

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Our Customers:

HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 500K businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel:

We operate at scale, managing over 40 billion API hits and 120 billion events monthly, with more than 500 micro-services in production. Our systems handle 200+ terabytes of application data and 6 petabytes of storage.

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Engineer with expertise in ClickHouse and other columnar databases. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of database performance optimization, query tuning, data modeling, and large-scale data processing. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining high-performance analytical databases that support real-time and batch processing.

Responsibilities:

• Design, optimize, and maintain ClickHouse databases to support high-throughput analytical workloads
• Develop and implement efficient data models for fast query performance and storage optimization
• Monitor and troubleshoot database performance issues, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal query execution
• Work closely with data engineers, software developers, and DevOps teams to integrate ClickHouse with data pipelines
• Optimise data ingestion processes, ensuring efficient storage and retrieval of structured and semi-structured data
• Implement partitioning, sharding, and indexing strategies for large-scale data processing
• Evaluate and benchmark ClickHouse against other columnar databases such as Apache Druid, Apache Pinot, or Snowflake
• Establish best practices for backup, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery
• Automate database deployment, schema migrations, and performance monitoring using infrastructure-as-code approaches
  
  
  

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working with high-performance databases, with a focus on ClickHouse or similar columnar databases
• Strong knowledge of SQL, query optimisation techniques, and database internals
• Experience handling large-scale data (TBs to PBs) and optimizing data storage & retrieval
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming data ingestion, and batch processing
• Proficiency in at least two scripting/programming languages like NodeJS, Python, Go, or Java for database automation
• Familiarity with Kafka, Apache Spark, or Flink for real-time data processing
• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or Ansible for database deployment & orchestration is a plus
• Strong understanding of columnar storage formats (Parquet, ORC, Avro) and their impact on performance
• Knowledge of cloud-based ClickHouse deployments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and a passion for performance tuning
  
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with alternative columnar databases like Apache Druid, Apache Pinot, or Snowflake
• Background in big data analytics, time-series databases, or high-performance data warehousing
• Prior experience working with distributed systems and high-availability architectures
  
  
  

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