ClickHouse

Engineering Manager, Database Integrations

ClickHouse

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPostgres

About the role

  • Lead Database Integrations team building core connectors (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Snowflake) for ClickPipes ingestion platform.
  • End-to-end responsibility for 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 team members, provide regular feedback and create growth opportunities in technical and leadership skills.
  • 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 into a 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, raising the technical and leadership bar.
  • 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: ability to dive into code/designs for complex or critical areas, review code, and guide 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 youre 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
PostgresMySQLMongoDBBigQuerySnowflakeCDCGoKubernetesmulti-clouddata-intensive systems
Soft skills
mentoringcoachingleadershipcommunicationteam buildingownershipcontinuous improvementexecution in ambiguous environmentscustomer-centricstakeholder alignment