Engineering Manager, ClickHouse
Database Integrations
+ Equity
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Open for applications
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years managing software engineers with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent
- Experience leading distributed global teams, fostering an inclusive and autonomous culture, and creating clarity across time zones
- Proven ability to mentor and coach engineers and emerging leaders, raising the technical and leadership bar
- Demonstrated success building highly technical teams that value ownership, speed, and continuous improvement
- Comfortable driving execution in ambiguous environments: setting crisp priorities, sequencing bets, and delivering impact without over-process
- Strong communicator, able to align stakeholders internally and represent the team externally (conferences, blogs, talks)
- 10+ years of industry experience building data-intensive or distributed systems
- Hands-on: you still enjoy diving into code/designs for complex or critical areas, reviewing code, and guiding via feedback
- Deep database replication/CDC expertise and fluency with correctness, ordering, backpressure, and recovery at scale
- Strong Go (or willingness to ramp quickly with prior deep systems language experience)
- K8s in production and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience
- Customer-centric: adept at turning feedback and pain points into product wins
- Bias for shipping fast with tight feedback loops, balancing reliability and agility
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Database Integrations team—the group that builds and owns the core connectors (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, and more to come)
- This is a high-impact, high-trust role at the center of our growth story, combining deep technical leadership, customer empathy, and a founder-like mindset
- As the Engineering Manager for ClickPipes Database Integrations, you’ll lead a team responsible for designing, building, and scaling the pipelines that connect ClickHouse to the world’s most important data systems
- You’ll work hand-in-hand with Product to shape roadmaps, make trade-offs with business impact in mind, and complement product vision with strong technical execution
- This role goes beyond engineering leadership
- Together with your team, you’ll help shape how ClickHouse shows up externally—whether that’s representing us at conferences, speaking at industry events, or contributing content that reinforces our position as the best place to run real-time data workloads
- You'll have end-to-end responsibility for Database (such as Postgres, MongoDB) and data warehouse (such as BigQuery, Snowflake) integrations, including CDC, initial snapshots, schema evolution, backfills, and correctness at scale
- Recruit, coach, and develop a high-bar team; set crisp expectations and foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement
- Jump into designs and code for complex flows (e.g. , WAL/binlog/oplog handling, LSN/GTID management, idempotency/exactly-once behaviors, backpressure)
- Mentor and coach your team — provide regular feedback, create growth opportunities, and support advancement in technical and leadership skills, while fostering a healthy, inclusive environment built on empathy, psychological safety, trust, and a high technical bar
- Build the culture of operational excellence: Own SLOs, reliability, on-call quality, and cost-efficiency for k8s-hosted, multi-tenant services across cloud regions
- Systematize support, reduce toil, and build self-serve/auto-healing capabilities
- Shape the product vision, transform it into the roadmap, sequence bets for business impact, and ship fast with tight feedback loops
- Inspire blog posts, guides, and talks; personally present at meetups/conferences to showcase our work and lessons learned
- Join key customer calls, turn feedback into roadmap and fixes, and make upgrades/migrations predictable and safe
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 too, the most recent of which is cited to help advance its platform across multiple use cases. Alongside this funding, it recently announced the acquisition of LibreChat, an open-source AI chat platform, allowing ClickHouse 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$350m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $650m
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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