Engineering Manager – Language Clients

ClickHouse

Engineering Manager leading the Language Clients team at ClickHouse, a fast-growing database company. Mentoring engineers and shaping product strategies in a high-ownership role.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $165,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Open Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Build productive relationships with product, developer relations, and sales engineering without losing engineering focus.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
Startup experience preferred.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineering managementtechnical designcode reviewdeveloper-facing toolsopen source softwaredata-intensive systemsUX benchmarksdeveloper experienceSDK developmentintegration development

Soft Skills

coachingmentoringteam developmentpsychological safetycollaborationrelationship buildingcustomer-centricityproduct ownershipcommunicationadaptability