Used Tools & Technologies
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Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Kafka @ 4
Kubernetes @ 4
Linux @ 4
Spark @ 4
GCP @ 4
Distributed Systems @ 6
Kinesis @ 4
Hiring @ 4
AWS @ 4
Azure @ 4
Mentoring @ 4
RabbitMQ @ 4
SRE @ 6
IaaS @ 4
Product Management @ 4
Project Management @ 6
OSS @ 4
OLAP @ 4
Observability @ 4
AI @ 4
ClickHouse @ 4
Data Pipelines @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
About ClickHouse
Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The company recently closed a $400M Series D financing round and serves customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, Airwallex, Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.
We are expanding our Support Services team and are seeking a Senior Consulting Engineer to provide consultative support to ClickHouse enterprise customers. The role blends hands-on engineering, development assistance, and high-tier support across Consultative Support, Engineering, and Support. You will work directly with strategic customers, provide guidance and technical oversight, assist with L1–L3 support cases when not assigned to projects, and contribute to documentation and product feedback.
Responsibilities
- Project Engineering & Consulting (50%): participate in customer projects focusing on design, architecture, integration, implementation, and documentation. This includes research, benchmarking, performance and functional testing, reference architectures, sizing, migration, integration, development, and tooling.
- Consultative Support (50%): provide case-initiated consultative support to strategic users, customers, and prospects, assisting with implementation, onboarding, production launches, and POCs.
- Provide architectural, technical, and migration assistance, including hands-on tasks.
- Work as a member of the Support Team handling L1 to L3 cases and communications when not actively assigned to customer projects.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Sales to contribute to the product roadmap and account plans.
- Develop and assist with public and internal documentation, knowledge base articles, ClickHouse Learning, reference architectures, blogs, and benchmark results.
- Assist with hiring and mentoring new team members.
- Be available for scheduling and on-call needs to deliver 24x7 support in a global, distributed environment, including up to 35% estimated onsite regional travel.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Professional Services, Support, Technical Account Management, Engineering/SRE, and/or Project Management roles.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience implementing, operating, and/or supporting scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed database management systems (DBMS).
- Technical breadth and depth in DBMS, OLAP, Cloud/SaaS platforms, distributed systems software engineering, Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, system or network administration, and big data.
- Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
- Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their IaaS offerings (e.g., EC2).
Bonus Points
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience with OSS and open-source technologies as a user, community member, or contributor.
- Experience with Azure, GCP, or AWS.
- Experience with data pipelines such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, RabbitMQ, or others.
Compensation
The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $158,000 - $199,000 USD. The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets (e.g., San Francisco Bay Area, New York City Metro Area) is $176,000 - $221,000 USD. Placement within the range depends on factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skills, and location.
Perks
- Flexible work environment; ClickHouse is globally distributed and remote-friendly.
- Employer contributions towards healthcare.
- Equity: stock options for new team members.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home office setup for remote employees.
- Global gatherings and company-wide offsites.
Equal Opportunity & Privacy
ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination. See their privacy statement for applicant privacy details.