ClickHouse is seeking an engineering manager to lead our team of software engineers based in China who own our partnership with Alibaba Cloud.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and leada high-performing technical team in China, fostering a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession
- Support Alibaba Cloud & ClickHouse partnershipwith deep technical expertise, driving integration, optimization, and go-to-market strategies
- Lead enterprise customer POCsfrom architecture design to production deployment, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Design PB-scale real-time data warehouse architectures, leveraging ClickHouse's exceptional performance for mission-critical workloads
- Partner with global Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, representing customer needs and driving product innovation
- Represent ClickHouseat technical conferences, meetups, and community events in China
Required Qualifications
- Fluent English and Mandarinfor seamless technical discussions with global teams and Chinese customers
- Outstanding customer-facing communication skillswith the ability to build trusted relationships at all organizational levels
- Deep database expertise- internals, query optimization, distributed systems, OLAP technologies
- Strong architecture design capabilitiesfor large-scale, mission-critical data platforms
- PB-scale real-time data warehouse hands-on experiencebuilding and operating production systems
- Cloud-Native proficiency- solid experience with cloud-native architecture and infrastructure, with hands-on knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud)
- Team leadership experiencemanaging technical teams of 10+ engineers
- 8+ yearsin database/data warehouse/big data technologies
- High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability- thrives in a high-velocity environment with significant autonomy
- Founder's mindsetwith a focus on impact, innovation, and delivering measurable results
Preferred Qualifications
- ClickHouse community contributor- active participation through code, documentation, or advocacy
- Experience with columnar databases(ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot) and real-time analytics systems
- Kubernetes expertise- practical experience deploying and managing stateful applications on K8s at scale
- Data engineering skills- strong background in ETL pipelines, data replication, CDC, and streaming platforms (Kafka, Flink, Spark)
- Technical writing/speaking experience- blogs, conference presentations, technical documentation
- Open-source contributionsin the database or cloud-native ecosystem
- Exceptional problem-solving skillswith proven experience debugging complex production issues
Perks
- Flexible work environment- ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 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 USD$500 Home office setupif 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.
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here . Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
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