About ClickHouse
Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With over 2,000 customers and ARR that has more than quadrupled over the past year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.
ClickHouse 官方在国内招聘研发经理和 C++ 软件工程师，请把英文简历发送给：[email protected]
Engineering Manager
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 lead a high-performing technical team in China, fostering a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession
- Support Alibaba Cloud & ClickHouse partnership with deep technical expertise, driving integration, optimization, and go-to-market strategies
- Lead enterprise customer POCs from 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 ClickHouse at technical conferences, meetups, and community events in China
Required Qualifications
- Fluent English and Mandarin for seamless technical discussions with global teams and Chinese customers
- Outstanding customer-facing communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships at all organizational levels
- Deep database expertise - internals, query optimization, distributed systems, OLAP technologies
- Strong architecture design capabilities for large-scale, mission-critical data platforms
- PB-scale real-time data warehouse hands-on experience building 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 experience managing technical teams of 10+ engineers
- 8+ years in database/data warehouse/big data technologies
- High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability - thrives in a high-velocity environment with significant autonomy
- Founder's mindset with 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 contributions in the database or cloud-native ecosystem
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with proven experience debugging complex production issues
Software Engineer (C++)
The Core Engineering team for chDB is responsible for developing our high-performance in-process SQL engine, powered by ClickHouse, while working cross-functionally to enhance multi-language ecosystem integration. We're looking for a highly proficient C++ engineer who will work on our core engine and help expand our language binding capabilities across Python, Go, Ruby, Java, NodeJS, Bun, Rust, and R ecosystems.
What will you do?
- Develop features for the chDB core engine in C++, working on areas like performance optimization, object serialization, and DataFrame operations
- Design and implement language bindings for various programming languages
- Closely collaborate with our integration teams to ensure seamless compatibility across language ecosystems, particularly with data science tools and frameworks
- Improve the robustness of chDB through comprehensive testing across different language bindings
- Serve as a technical resource for the multi-language community, helping debug advanced issues and optimize performance
- Work with our open-source community, including resolving issues, reviewing PRs, and providing guidance through various communication channels
About you:
- Strong professional software development experience in C++
- Experience with Unix systems and cross-platform development
- Experience in one or more: high-performance computing, in-memory databases, data processing engines, concurrency, and multithreading
- Experience developing language bindings or FFI (Foreign Function Interface) implementations
- Familiarity with multiple programming languages, particularly Python, Go, Java, Node.js, or Rust
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively within and across engineering teams; some professional working proficiency with English is required
- Experience with data processing frameworks and SQL engines
- You're passionate about building developer tools and improving cross-language interoperability
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment and can balance technical excellence with practical solutions
- You have a high level of ownership and accountability, with a focus on delivering reliable, performant code
Bonus points for:
- Experience with database internals and query optimization
- Familiarity with package management and build systems across different languages
- Experience with data formats like Parquet, Avro, and Arrow
- Contributions to cross-language tools or related open source projects
- Experience optimizing performance for large-scale data operations
- Background in developing APIs and creating developer documentation
- Knowledge of WebAssembly and cross-platform compilation
Compensation
For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as Los Angeles, CA, the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, the Seattle, WA, Area, and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.
These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.
An individual's placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.
If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [email protected].
Perks
- 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.
