Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ClickHouse is a fast-growing database company recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, focused on real-time analytics and AI workloads. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead their Language Clients team, responsible for building a high-output culture and shaping the product strategy for client libraries.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, coach, and develop a high-bar team; set crisp expectations and foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement
- Mentor engineers at all levels, create growth opportunities, and build psychological safety and a healthy, inclusive environment where engineers do their best work
- Shape the product and execution strategy for language clients to stay ahead of 10x growth
- Make opinionated architectural decisions while maintaining a customer-focused, fast-shipping culture
- Establish measurable UX and developer experience benchmarks and own the roadmap to make ClickHouse client libraries best-in-class in the OLAP space
- Lead expansion from core client libraries into a broader ecosystem: integrations, SDKs, partner tooling, and community-built extensions
- Establish and sustain effective collaboration with OSS communities: contribute, build relationships, and earn trust in public technical spaces
- Represent ClickHouse externally at conferences, in community forums, and with partners
- Build productive relationships with product, developer relations, and sales engineering without losing engineering focus
- Know when to protect team capacity and scope — and make that case clearly upward
Skills
- 3+ years managing software engineers with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent
- Demonstrated ability to grow engineers into senior contributors and future leads
- Comfortable driving execution in ambiguous environments: setting crisp priorities and delivering impact without over-process
- 10+ years of industry experience building developer-facing tools, open source software, or data-intensive systems
- Hands-on: you engage with technical designs, review code, and guide via technical feedback
- Deep interest in staying on the technological edge - actively follows trends in developer tooling, data, and the OSS space
- Experience collaborating with open source communities and earning trust in public technical spaces
- Track record of external representation: talks, blog posts, community engagement, or partner development
- Strong product ownership — capable of setting direction, not just executing it
- Customer-centric: turns developer feedback into roadmap and ships fast with tight feedback loops
- Startup experience preferred
Benefits
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 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 Overview
ClickHouse provides an open-source database system for real-time analytical reporting. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://clickhouse.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
ClickHouse has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 3 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.