About ClickHouse
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.
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.
We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!
We are currently expanding our support services team, which provides excellent service to customers around the world. We are looking for a Senior Consulting Engineer to join our global team and provide consultative support to ClickHouse enterprise customers. This position is a unique role that combines hands-on engineering, development assistance, and top-tier support, working across consultative support, engineering, and support functions. You will work directly with strategic customer groups to provide guidance, answer cases, and offer technical oversight. When not assigned to large-scale projects, Consulting Engineers are also responsible for handling customer cases at the L1–L3 support tiers.
Hiring Region: This position is for hiring in Japan. This role is not office-based, so there is no restriction on your work location within the country. However, travel will be required for in-person support for customers in Tokyo.
Responsibilities
- Project Engineering & Consulting (50% of role): As a member of customer projects, you will be involved in design, architecture, integration, implementation, and documentation. This includes research, benchmarking, performance and functional testing, reference architecture, sizing, migration, integration, development, and tooling.
- Consultative Support (50% of role): Provide case-based consultative support to strategic users, customers, and prospects, assisting with implementation, onboarding, production go-live, and PoCs (Proof of Concepts).
- Provide assistance (including hands-on work) regarding architecture, technology, and migrations.
- When not assigned to customer projects, you will act as a member of the support team, handling L1–L3 case responses and communication.
- Work closely with ClickHouse product management, engineering, and sales to contribute to the product roadmap and account plans.
- Create and support a wide range of content, including public and internal documentation, knowledge base articles, ClickHouse Learning, reference architectures, blogs, and benchmark results.
- Support the hiring and mentoring of new members as the team grows and expands.
- Be available for shifts and on-call duties to provide high-quality 24/7 support in a globally distributed environment (regional travel is expected to be up to approximately 35%).
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in professional services, support, technical account management, engineering/SRE, and/or project management.
- 5+ years of experience in a relevant industry implementing, operating, and/or supporting scalable and fault-tolerant distributed database management systems (DBMS).
- Broad and deep technical knowledge in relevant fields such as DBMS, OLAP, cloud/SaaS platforms, distributed systems software engineering, Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, system or network administration, and big data.
- Experience leading and completing large-scale technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
- Expert knowledge of public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their IaaS services (e.g., EC2).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using ClickHouse
- Experience with OSS (Open Source Software) and open source technologies as a user, community member, or contributor
- Experience using Azure, GCP, or AWS
- Experience with data pipelines such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or RabbitMQ
You are a good fit if you:
- Have excellent communication skills, find fulfillment in customer-facing roles, and can work closely with support, engineering, and sales teams.
- Are proactive, inquisitive, and seek continuous learning and growth.
- Value teamwork, have a global perspective, possess empathy, and have the drive to tackle challenging problems.
- Have a sense of adventure and a sense of urgency for building the world's most scalable, highest-performing, largest, and fastest database.
Compensation
For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.
These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.
An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.
If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [email protected].
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.
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
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