Senior Consulting Engineer
158k – 221kUnited StatesSolutions ArchitectureRemote5+ YOE
Summary
Senior Consulting Engineer providing consultative support and project engineering for enterprise ClickHouse customers. Blends hands-on engineering, architecture guidance, and high-tier support across strategic accounts.
About the role
Responsibilities
Project Engineering & Consulting (50%)
- Serve as a team member on customer projects, focusing on design, architecture, integration, implementation, and documentation
- Perform research, benchmarking, performance and functional testing, reference architectures, sizing, migration, integration, development, and tooling
Consultative Support (50%)
- Provide case-initiated consultative support to strategic users, customers, and prospects
- Assist with implementation, onboarding, production launches, and Proof of Concepts (POCs)
- Provide architectural, technical, and migration assistance, including hands-on tasks
- Handle L1 to L3 cases and communications when not actively assigned to customer projects
- Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Sales to contribute to the product roadmap and account plans
- Develop and assist with Public and Internal Documentation, Knowledge Base articles, ClickHouse Learning, Reference Architecture, blogs, and benchmark results
- Assist with hiring and mentoring new team members
- 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
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Professional Services, Support, Technical Accounts Management, Engineering/SRE, and/or Project Management roles
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience in implementing, operating, and/or supporting scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed database management systems ("DBMS")
- 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
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
- Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2)
Bonus Points
- Experience with ClickHouse
- Experience with OSS and open-source technologies, as a user, community member, or contributor
- Experience with Azure, GCP or AWS
- Experience with data pipelines such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, RabbitMQ, or others
Perks
- Flexible work environment - globally distributed company and remote-friendly
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare
- Equity in the company - stock options for every new team member
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
- $500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee
- Global Gatherings – opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites
Skills
AWSGCPAzureKubernetesLinuxUnixKafkaKinesisSparkRabbitMQOLAPDBMSdistributed systems
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