Engineering Lead, ClickHouse
Web Platform
$177-222k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
Job no longer available
Open-source database for real-time apps & analytics
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$177-222k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Extensive experience building and operating modern web platforms using Next.js, React, JavaScript and TypeScript
- Strong software architecture and systems design experience
- Experience with headless CMS platforms, ideally Strapi
- Deep understanding of web performance, accessibility, analytics integrations and modern frontend engineering practices
- Experience building reliable production systems with modern deployment, monitoring and observability tooling
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working across design, marketing and engineering
- A pragmatic technical leader who enjoys mentoring others while remaining close to the code
Desirable
- Experience building high-traffic SaaS websites
- Experience with experimentation platforms and A/B testing frameworks
- Strong understanding of technical SEO
- Experience building or contributing to design systems
- Familiarity with modern analytics platforms and data-driven optimisation
- Experience using AI-powered developer tools to improve engineering productivity
What the job involves
- ClickHouse is looking for an experienced Engineering Lead, Web Platform, to lead the technical evolution of our marketing website and the systems that power our digital presence
- This is a hands-on player/coach role. You’ll define the technical direction of one of our most important products while remaining an active contributor to the codebase
- You’ll partner closely with Design, Demand Generation, Content, Product Marketing and Engineering to build a world-class web platform that enables rapid growth without compromising engineering quality
- Success in this role requires someone who enjoys balancing long-term technical strategy with day-to-day execution. At ClickHouse, leaders lead by doing
- Define and lead the technical strategy for the ClickHouse web platform
- Architect, build and maintain our marketing website and supporting systems using Next.js, React, JavaScript, TypeScript and Strapi
- Contribute meaningful production code across the platform. This is a hands-on engineering role where everybody codes
- Continuously improve the platform’s performance, scalability, reliability, accessibility and maintainability
- Own the technical health of the website, including Core Web Vitals, deployment pipelines, observability and engineering best practices
- Partner with Demand Generation to improve self-service capabilities and evolve experimentation and A/B testing infrastructure
- Partner with the Content team to improve technical SEO and search performance
- Partner with Design to deliver exceptional user experiences while maintaining engineering quality and implementation consistency
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to understand priorities, define technical solutions and build the roadmap for the web platform
- Establish and maintain high engineering standards through architecture, code reviews, documentation and technical leadership
- Help shape the future of web engineering at ClickHouse by evaluating modern technologies, tooling and AI-assisted development workflows
- Help build and grow a lean, high-performing web engineering team as the organisation evolves, partnering on hiring where additional investment is needed
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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