Engineering Manager - Language clients
Job description
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 3,000 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!
Engineering Manager – Language clients
About the Role
ClickHouse is the fastest growing database in the OLAP space, and language clients are how the world talks to it. From Go and Python to Rust and Java, our client libraries are the first touch point for every developer who builds on ClickHouse, and the gateway to a rapidly expanding ecosystem of integrations, SDKs, and partner tooling.
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Language Clients team - a group of motivated engineers ready to do their best work. You will build a high-output culture, set a clear technical direction, and expand our reach from client libraries into the broader open source ecosystem.
This is a high-ownership role. You will work closely with engineering leadership in your first months, with autonomy expanding as fast as you build confidence and context — there is no artificial timeline.
What You'll Do
Team & culture. 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.
Technical direction. 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.
OSS & Ecosystem. 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. Represent ClickHouse externally at conferences, in community forums, and with partners.
Collaboration. Build productive relationships with product, developer relations, and sales engineering without losing engineering focus. Know when to protect team capacity and scope — and make that case clearly upward.
Qualifications
Leadership & Execution. 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.
Technical excellence. 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.
OSS & product mindset. 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.
Why This Team
- Shape how developers around the world interact with ClickHouse from the first line of code to production at scale.
- Lead a team that is motivated and capable, your investment in them will compound.
- High visibility: language clients are the front door to the ClickHouse ecosystem, directly impacting developer adoption, community growth, and product direction.
- ClickHouse is the fastest-growing database in the OLAP space - you will be building at the frontier of a category that is still being defined.
- Operate with high ownership and autonomy in a company that stays lean and moves fast.
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.
Equal Opportunity & Privacy
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