Software Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platform – Continuous Integration
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Engineering Manager, Database Integrations
ClickHouse
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMongoDBPostgres
About the role
- End-to-end responsibility for Database (Postgres, MongoDB) and data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake) integrations, including CDC, initial snapshots, schema evolution, backfills, and correctness at scale.
- Recruit, coach, and develop a high-bar team; set crisp expectations and foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement.
- Jump into designs and code for complex flows (WAL/binlog/oplog handling, LSN/GTID management, idempotency/exactly-once behaviors, backpressure).
- Mentor and coach your team — provide regular feedback, create growth opportunities, and support advancement in technical and leadership skills.
- Build the culture of operational excellence: Own SLOs, reliability, on-call quality, and cost-efficiency for k8s-hosted, multi-tenant services across cloud regions.
- Systematize support, reduce toil, and build self-serve/auto-healing capabilities.
- Shape the product vision, transform it into the roadmap, sequence bets for business impact, and ship fast with tight feedback loops.
- Inspire blog posts, guides, and talks; present at meetups/conferences to showcase work and lessons learned.
- Join key customer calls, turn feedback into roadmap and fixes, and make upgrades/migrations predictable and safe.
Requirements
- 3+ years managing software engineers with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent.
- Experience leading distributed global teams, fostering an inclusive and autonomous culture, and creating clarity across time zones.
- Proven ability to mentor and coach engineers and emerging leaders.
- Demonstrated success building highly technical teams that value ownership, speed, and continuous improvement.
- Comfortable driving execution in ambiguous environments: setting crisp priorities, sequencing bets, and delivering impact without over-process.
- Strong communicator, able to align stakeholders internally and represent the team externally (conferences, blogs, talks).
- 10+ years of industry experience building data-intensive or distributed systems.
- Hands-on: enjoy diving into code/designs for complex or critical areas, reviewing code, and guiding via feedback.
- Deep database replication/CDC expertise and fluency with correctness, ordering, backpressure, and recovery at scale.
- Strong Go (or willingness to ramp quickly with prior deep systems language experience).
- Kubernetes in production and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience.
- Customer-centric: adept at turning feedback and pain points into product wins.
- Bias for shipping fast with tight feedback loops, balancing reliability and agility.
Benefits
- 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 – opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PostgresMongoDBBigQuerySnowflakeCDCk8sGodatabase replicationbackpressuredata-intensive systems
Soft skills
mentoringcoachingcommunicationleadershipteam developmentownershipcontinuous improvementclaritycustomer-centricexecution in ambiguous environments
