ClickHouse provides a fast, open-source columnar database and managed cloud service designed for real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML workloads.
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