Senior Consulting Engineer - Japan
at ClickHouse · 251-500 employees
Series D · $400M · Jan 2026
- Seniority
- Senior
- Work model
- Remote
- Location
- Japan (Remote)
- Posted
- 5d ago
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at ClickHouse · 251-500 employees
ClickHouse provides a fast, open-source columnar database and managed cloud service designed for real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML workloads.
<div class="content-intro"><h3>About ClickHouse</h3> <p>Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 4,000 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.</p> <p>The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.</p> <p>We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!</p></div><p>We are currently expanding our Support Services team at ClickHouse, which delivers exceptional service to our customers worldwide. We are seeking a Senior Consulting Engineer<strong> </strong>to join our global team, where you'll provide Consultative Support to our ClickHouse enterprise customers. The role uniquely blends hands-on engineering, development assistance, and high-tier support, performing functions across Consultative Support, Engineering, and Support. You will work directly with a set of strategic customers, providing guidance, case answers, and technical oversight. Consulting Engineers will also be assisting with support cases for customers in our Support L1 to L3 tiers, particularly when not assigned to larger projects.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: We are hiring for this role in Japan. Your exact location within the country does not matter as the role is not office-based. There will be on-site travel to provide in-person support to customers in Tokyo.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><strong><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Project Engineering & Consulting (50%):</span></strong><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"> Serve as a team member on 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.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><strong><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Consultative Support (50%):</span></strong><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"> Provide case-initiated consultative support to strategic users, customers, and prospects, assisting with implementation, onboarding, production launches, and Proof of Concepts (POCs).</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Provide architectural, technical, and migration assistance, including hands-on tasks.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Work as a member of the Support Team, handling L1 to L3 cases and communications when not actively assigned to customer projects.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Partner closely with ClickHouse Product Management, Engineering, and Sales to contribute to the product roadmap and account plans.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Develop and assist with a wide range of content, including Public and Internal Documentation, Knowledge Base articles, ClickHouse Learning, Reference Architecture, blogs, and benchmark results.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Assist with hiring and mentoring new team members as we grow and scale.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Be available for scheduling and on-call needs to deliver high-quality 24x7 support in a global, distributed environment, including up to 35% estimated onsite regional travel.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">5+ years of experience in Professional Services, Support, Technical Accounts Management, Engineering/SRE, and/or Project Management roles.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">5+ years of relevant industry experience in implementing, operating, and/or supporting scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed database management systems ("DBMS").</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Technical breadth and depth in relevant subjects such as DBMS, OLAP, Cloud/SaaS platforms, distributed systems software engineering, Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, System or Network Administration, and big data.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.</span></li> <li class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated"><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnimated">Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus points:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with ClickHouse</li> <li>Experience with OSS and open-source technologies, as a user, community member, or contributor</li> <li>Experience with Azure, GCP or AWS</li> <li>Experience with data pipelines such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, RabbitMQ, or others</li> </ul> <p><strong><span class="appsElementsGenerativeaiAstAnim