AI Product Engineer - ClickStack

Details

Join ClickHouse in building the AI layer for ClickStack, an open-source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and session replays. The role focuses on building agentic capabilities on a petabyte-scale observability platform, with an emphasis on developer experience and production-ready AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build agents that investigate incidents, surface anomalies, answer why production is broken, and use ClickStack as their substrate.
• Build a library of reusable skills that captures debugging, root-cause analysis, ClickHouse query development, and incident-response workflows.
• Own the agent stack end-to-end, including context engineering, tool design, evaluations, tracing, and cost management.
• Build MCP servers, SDKs, and integrations that allow customers' agents to read telemetry, take action, and remain observable.
• Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, debug problems with them, and incorporate learnings into the product.
• Address latency, cost, context-window limitations, evaluation coverage, and hallucinations on real telemetry.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 1–2 years working on LLM-powered systems or agents in production.
• Strong backend skills in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Python; comfort working with both languages.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping agents with multi-step tool use, planning, memory, and error recovery.
• Experience designing skills, including Markdown-based workflow encodings such as Anthropic-style skills, and understanding when to use a skill, a tool, or both.
• Experience with MCP, including building servers, designing tools, and addressing authentication, scoping, and observability for agentic systems.
• Strong evaluation practices, including golden sets, LLM-as-judge, and regression detection.
• SQL proficiency, including the ability to write ClickHouse queries directly.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Active participation in open source and the developer community.
• Ability to think in production terms, including p99 latency, cost per task, and long-term system reliability.
• Ability to work quickly, handle ambiguity, and take ownership.
• Interest in developer tools and developer experience.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience building or operating production agents for observability, incident response, or SRE.
• Knowledge of agent observability, including tracing, cost attribution, evaluation pipelines, and OpenTelemetry for agents.
• Experience with prompt caching, context compaction, or related techniques for running agents on production telemetry volumes.
• Experience with columnar databases and event ingestion pipelines.
• Contributions to or maintenance of an open-source AI or agent project.
• Familiarity with Go, Rust, or other systems languages for integrations and high-throughput infrastructure.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment at a globally distributed, remote-friendly company operating in over 25 countries.
• Employer contributions toward healthcare.
• Stock options for every new team member.
• Flexible time off in the United States and generous entitlement in other countries.
• USD 500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

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