Senior Database Administrator (ClickHouse)

Tabby
Portugal
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Troubleshooting","Communication","Proactive monitoring","Problem-solving","Independent execution"]

Own the reliability and performance of Tabby’s production ClickHouse clusters across self-hosted Kubernetes and managed services. Design scalable architectures, automate operations, and manage cluster lifecycle tasks like provisioning, upgrades, backups, and migrations with minimal downtime. Troubleshoot end-to-end issues from queries and schema design through Kubernetes, Linux, storage, and networking, while building monitoring/alerting, enforcing security practices, and keeping runbooks up to date.

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Tabby
Tabby
11 hours ago

Senior Database Administrator (ClickHouse)

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Job Summary

Own the reliability and performance of Tabby’s production ClickHouse clusters across self-hosted Kubernetes and managed services. Design scalable architectures, automate operations, and manage cluster lifecycle tasks like provisioning, upgrades, backups, and migrations with minimal downtime. Troubleshoot end-to-end issues from queries and schema design through Kubernetes, Linux, storage, and networking, while building monitoring/alerting, enforcing security practices, and keeping runbooks up to date.
Location: Portugal
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own reliability and performance of production ClickHouse clusters, whether self-hosted on Kubernetes or managed services.
  • •Design standard architectures and tooling to scale to dozens of multi-node clusters without proportional operational growth.
  • •Manage the cluster lifecycle as code: provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and migrations.
  • •Build monitoring and alerting to detect issues before users notice, and act on early warning signs.
  • •Ensure backups and disaster recovery, including regularly tested restores, and handle rare production emergencies with root-cause analysis and postmortem contributions.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkTax AllowancePaid LeaveEquityRelocation SupportWellness StipendTravel AllowanceLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Deep, DBA-level knowledge of ClickHouse in production, including how it stores, merges, replicates, and queries data.
  • •Strong SQL skills for optimizing complex analytical queries and reviewing schema design.
  • •Experience designing and automating reliable database architectures across dozens of multi-node clusters, ideally with large database fleets.
  • •Hands-on operation of stateful workloads on Kubernetes in production, including using a Kubernetes operator for databases (any engine accepted, e.g., CloudNativePG, Zalando Postgres Operator, Altinity, or ClickHouse operator).
  • •Strong production troubleshooting, database health monitoring/alerting, security practices (encryption, access control, secrets), and IaC with automation scripting/programming language.
Experience:Cloud infrastructureKubernetesObservabilityDatabase administration
Skills:TroubleshootingCommunicationProactive monitoringProblem-solvingIndependent execution
Tech Stack:ClickHouseSQLKubernetesLinuxCloudNativePGZalando Postgres OperatorAltinityClickHouse operator

Company Brief

Tabby
Tabby is a MENA buy‑now‑pay‑later and fintech platform that enables customers to split purchases into installments, offers in‑store and online payment products, a consumer app, and merchant services across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and the wider region.
Industry: Lending
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Founded: 2019
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