Solutions Architect, ClickHouse
$200-280k
+ Stock options. Salary varies depending on location
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
Be an early applicant
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-280k
+ Stock options. Salary varies depending on location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for engineers who are ready to engage customers. Prior pre-sales experience is not required — but technical depth is non-negotiable
- Deep technical foundation in data engineering or a closely related discipline — built through experience as a data engineer, software engineer, analytics engineer, or similar hands-on role
- Comfort with the modern data stack: columnar databases, streaming ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis), cloud infrastructure, and SQL-heavy analytics workflows. Hands-on experience with ClickHouse, DuckDB, Druid, Pinot, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar is a strong plus
- Some customer-facing experience — whether in pre-sales, technical account management, solutions engineering, or a customer-success capacity. You've navigated technical conversations with real stakes before. If you haven't, you've wanted to
- An instinct for moving quickly. This segment runs on short cycles. You know how to drive a technical evaluation to a conclusion without letting it drag, and how to remove blockers that stall deals
- Strong written and verbal communication. You can simplify complex architectural concepts without dumbing them down, and you write clearly enough that your responses actually get read by engineers
- Curiosity about the business side of technology. You're interested in understanding why companies buy and what success looks like for them — not just what they're building
- Ownership mentality. You're comfortable operating with autonomy, running evaluations independently, and making judgment calls without a playbook
What the job involves
- Our commercial segment — companies with up to 250 employees — is predominantly developer- and engineer-led. These buyers don't respond to canned demos and slide decks. They respond to someone who can sit in their architecture review, understand their ingestion problem, and help them build something that actually works. That's who we're hiring
- As a Commercial Solutions Architect at ClickHouse, you'll own the technical side of the sales cycle for inbound, product-led, and self-serve accounts in this segment. You'll engage with data engineers, platform teams, and technical founders at the moment they're evaluating ClickHouse for a real use case — and your job is to make sure they succeed technically, faster
- Our commercial customers include companies like Circle, Flashbots, Blockworks, Cypress.io, Kit, Whop, Coframe, Shaped, and janitorai — developer-first products that chose ClickHouse because they needed something that could handle billions of events without slowing down their users. You'll be the person who gets them there
- Own the technical evaluation process for accounts in the sub-250 employee segment — from first technical conversation through POC, architecture sign-off, and successful onboarding
- Engage directly with data engineers, platform architects, and technical founders to understand their use cases, data volumes, query patterns, and infrastructure requirements — and design ClickHouse solutions that map to those needs
- Troubleshoot schema design questions, ingestion patterns, and integration challenges during the evaluation process. Be the person who unblocks deals technically so they can close on time
- Build and deliver reference implementations, POCs, and architecture recommendations that give customers confidence in ClickHouse as a production-grade solution
- Partner closely with Commercial AEs to progress and close opportunities — you own the technical win, they own the commercial close
- Advocate for customer needs internally with Product and Engineering — you're the voice of the technical buyer inside ClickHouse
- Contribute to technical playbooks, objection handling guides, and reusable POC assets that help the team scale what's working
- Participate in developer community events, technical meetups, and online forums where our users naturally gather — and build credibility as a practitioner, not just a vendor
Our take
Database management systems have long been important to the operations of businesses. However, these systems can be painfully slow. ClickHouse solves this problem with its ultra-fast database management system, that powers real-time analytics and apps.
ClickHouse's founding team hail from companies including Yahoo!, Netflix, Salesforce and Google. This has not only lent the company an impressive amount of credibility, but has also allowed it to identify the needs and challenges of enterprises when it comes to their databases. Its system works between 100 and 1,000 times faster than traditional options, and has led to the company being trusted by the likes of eBay, Uber and Spotify.
It has seen substantial funding and acquired LibreChat, an open-source AI chat platform, allowing it to launch its Agentic Data Stack. This move positions the company at the forefront of agentic analytics, allowing organizations to interact with massive datasets through AI agents, and demonstrates ClickHouses's commitment to shaping the future of real-time, intelligent data analysis.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$400m
LATE VC
May 2025
$350m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites
Company HQ
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Aaron Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to ClickHouse, Aaron spent 6 years at Elastic as CRO and Strategic Advisor. He also spent 12 years at salesforce, joining as a Regional VP of Sales before working through various roles to become the Senior VP of Enterprise Sales.
Yury Izrailevsky
(Co-Founder & President)Previously, Yury spent 3 years at Google as a VP of Engineering, 8 years at Netflix as a Director of Cloud and Systems Infrastructure and VP of CLoud Computing and Platform Engineering, and 8 years at Yahoo! as a Manager of Yahoo Data Warehouse and Director of Engineering.
Alexey Milovidov
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to becoming CTO in 2021, Alexey was the Head of CLickHouse and Yandex for over 13 years.
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