Engineering Manager, ClickHouse
Language clients
+ Equity
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
Open for applications
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership & Execution. 3+ years managing software engineers with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent
- Demonstrated ability to grow engineers into senior contributors and future leads
- Comfortable driving execution in ambiguous environments: setting crisp priorities and delivering impact without over-process. Startup experience preferred
- Technical excellence. 10+ years of industry experience building developer-facing tools, open source software, or data-intensive systems
- Hands-on: you engage with technical designs, review code, and guide via technical feedback
- Deep interest in staying on the technological edge - actively follows trends in developer tooling, data, and the OSS space
- OSS & product mindset. Experience collaborating with open source communities and earning trust in public technical spaces
- Track record of external representation: talks, blog posts, community engagement, or partner development
- Strong product ownership — capable of setting direction, not just executing it
- Customer-centric: turns developer feedback into roadmap and ships fast with tight feedback loops
What the job involves
- ClickHouse is the fastest growing database in the OLAP space, and language clients are how the world talks to it
- From Go and Python to Rust and Java, our client libraries are the first touch point for every developer who builds on ClickHouse, and the gateway to a rapidly expanding ecosystem of integrations, SDKs, and partner tooling
- We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Language Clients team - a group of motivated engineers ready to do their best work
- You will build a high-output culture, set a clear technical direction, and expand our reach from client libraries into the broader open source ecosystem
- This is a high-ownership role. You will work closely with engineering leadership in your first months, with autonomy expanding as fast as you build confidence and context — there is no artificial timeline
- Team & culture. Recruit, coach, and develop a high-bar team; set crisp expectations and foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement
- Mentor engineers at all levels, create growth opportunities, and build psychological safety and a healthy, inclusive environment where engineers do their best work
- Technical direction. Shape the product and execution strategy for language clients to stay ahead of 10x growth. Make opinionated architectural decisions while maintaining a customer-focused, fast-shipping culture
- Establish measurable UX and developer experience benchmarks and own the roadmap to make ClickHouse client libraries best-in-class in the OLAP space
- OSS & Ecosystem. Lead expansion from core client libraries into a broader ecosystem: integrations, SDKs, partner tooling, and community-built extensions
- Establish and sustain effective collaboration with OSS communities: contribute, build relationships, and earn trust in public technical spaces
- Represent ClickHouse externally at conferences, in community forums, and with partners
- Collaboration. Build productive relationships with product, developer relations, and sales engineering without losing engineering focus. Know when to protect team capacity and scope — and make that case clearly upward
- Why This Team:
- Shape how developers around the world interact with ClickHouse from the first line of code to production at scale
- Lead a team that is motivated and capable, your investment in them will compound
- High visibility: language clients are the front door to the ClickHouse ecosystem, directly impacting developer adoption, community growth, and product direction
- ClickHouse is the fastest-growing database in the OLAP space - you will be building at the frontier of a category that is still being defined
- Operate with high ownership and autonomy in a company that stays lean and moves fast
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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