Engineering Manager - China

Role Summary

ClickHouse is seeking an engineering manager to lead our team of software engineers based in China who own our partnership with Alibaba Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing technical team in China, fostering a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession
• Support Alibaba Cloud & ClickHouse partnership with deep technical expertise, driving integration, optimization, and go-to-market strategies
• Lead enterprise customer POCs from architecture design to production deployment, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Design PB-scale real-time data warehouse architectures, leveraging ClickHouse's exceptional performance for mission-critical workloads
• Partner with global Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, representing customer needs and driving product innovation
• Represent ClickHouse at technical conferences, meetups, and community events in China

Requirements

• Fluent English and Mandarin for seamless technical discussions with global teams and Chinese customers
• Outstanding customer-facing communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships at all organizational levels
• Deep database expertise - internals, query optimization, distributed systems, OLAP technologies
• Strong architecture design capabilities for large-scale, mission-critical data platforms
• PB-scale real-time data warehouse hands-on experience building and operating production systems
• Cloud-Native proficiency - solid experience with cloud-native architecture and infrastructure, with hands-on knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud)
• Team leadership experience managing technical teams of 10+ engineers
• 8+ years in database/data warehouse/big data technologies
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability - thrives in a high-velocity environment with significant autonomy
• Founder's mindset with a focus on impact, innovation, and delivering measurable results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• ClickHouse community contributor - active participation through code, documentation, or advocacy
• Experience with columnar databases (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot) and real-time analytics systems
• Kubernetes expertise - practical experience deploying and managing stateful applications on K8s at scale
• Data engineering skills - strong background in ETL pipelines, data replication, CDC, and streaming platforms (Kafka, Flink, Spark)
• Technical writing/speaking experience - blogs, conference presentations, technical documentation
• Open-source contributions in the database or cloud-native ecosystem
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with proven experience debugging complex production issues

About the Company

The ClickPipes Platform plays a critical role in driving the growth of our company and ensuring the success of our clients by seamlessly onboarding and integrating data from diverse data sources into ClickHouse. Working at a petabyte scale and in high-velocity environments, this role offers an exceptional opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, operate with significant autonomy, and make a measurable impact.

Working on ClickPipes offers the opportunity to operate with a high degree of ownership and autonomy, tackle ambiguous problems, and deliver features that are used by some of the most data-intensive companies in the world.

You can find some of the teams recent work highlighted in our blog:

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you’ll design and build complex, data-heavy user interfaces and own customer-facing workflows end-to-end. While this role has a strong frontend focus, engineers are expected to work comfortably across the whole stack, collaborating on backend services, APIs, and system integrations as needed. We’re looking for T-shaped engineers who bring deep frontend expertise while remaining pragmatic and effective beyond UI tasks.

Flexible Scaling and Monitoring in ClickPipes https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickpipes-flexible-scaling-monitoring

MySQL CDC Connector for ClickPipes https://clickhouse.com/blog/mysql-cdc-connector-clickpipes-beta

The Evolution of ClickPipes https://clickhouse.com/blog/evolution-of-clickpipes