Database Research Scientist
ClickHouse · Remote · United States · Canada · United Kingdom · Germany · The Netherlands ·
COMPENSATION
$190k – $235k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- PhD or Masters required
- C++ / Rust / Zig
- Open-source focus
- Equity included
Join ClickHouse Labs, an applied research group collaborating with engineering teams to solve complex database challenges. You will identify performance bottlenecks in production systems like ClickHouse and PostgreSQL, developing novel algorithms and system designs. The goal is to translate research into real-world improvements for widely used open-source databases.
What you'll do
- Conduct applied research to improve performance and scalability of open-source DBMS
- Design new algorithms for query optimization, indexing, and storage management
- Develop research prototypes and production-grade implementations
- Collaborate with engineers to integrate research results into production systems
- Analyze large-scale workloads and telemetry to find optimization opportunities
- Publish findings at leading conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, or CIDR
What you'll need
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related field
- Strong publication record in top-tier venues like SIGMOD or OSDI
- Experience with database internals or large systems codebases
- Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, Zig, or similar low-level languages
- Strong analytical and technical communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with LLMs, reinforcement learning, or learned optimization
- Contributions to large open-source database or distributed systems projects
- Knowledge of formal verification tools like TLA+ or Alloy
- Experience with hardware acceleration using GPU, FPGA, or CXL
Stack
- ClickHouse
- PostgreSQL
- C
- C++
- Rust
- Zig
- Python
- Go
- LLVM
- eBPF
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Globally distributed company
- Flexible work environment
What you get
- Employer healthcare contributions
- Company stock options for all employees
- Flexible time off in the US
- $500 home office setup budget
- Global company offsites and gatherings