Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- EMEA
- Work arrangement:
- Hybrid
Role Summary
ClickHouse welcomed Langfuse, the leading open-source platform for tracing, evaluation, and observability, to strengthen its position in the AI infrastructure and LLM observability ecosystem. With ClickHouse and Langufuse scaling to power enterprise AI workloads, we're growing our support team to provide a world-class experience for our expanding customer base, with unified expertise across database infrastructure and AI observability.
We are seeking a Technical Customer Support Engineer to join our global Support Engineering team in a hybrid role spanning both ClickHouse and Langfuse ecosystems. In this position, you will support customers across EMEA and globally in the Americas and APJ when support is needed or coverage overlaps. You’ll be handling technical issues and solutions, ranging from core ClickHouse database requests to helping thousands of AI product teams succeed with tracing & evals in Langfuse. You will own a wide array of responsibilities, including front-line troubleshooting, community support, pre- and post-sales technical activities, and partnering on deeply technical POCs, and suggesting improvements to how we do things in Support at ClickHouse.
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 https://clickhouse.com/company/careers. Check out our blog posts https://clickhouse.com/blog or follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/clickhouseinc/life/0c1ee7f4-2129-488d-b413-e7f6270659fd/?viewAsMember=true to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.
Responsibilities
- Supporting and guiding our ClickHouse & Langfuse users, customers, and prospects via cases, chat, Slack, community, and phone calls, delivering high-touch guidance within required Service Level Agreements (SLAs) as part of a global on-call coverage rotation.
- Develop solutions based on ClickHouse Cloud and ClickHouse open-source that can be shared with our users, community, and customers via documentation, knowledge base, blogs, meetups, webinars, and training.
- Work closely with our global Support Services, Engineering, Go-to-Market, and Product Management teams to help define the functionality required by users and customers.
- Assist with mentoring, training, and sharing your knowledge with colleagues, users, and customers.
- Escalate bugs to product engineering and close the loop with the customer once shipped.
- Go through deep technical integration/implementation questions together with our customers and directly within their codebases.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners across the developer ecosystem
Requirements
For ClickHouse & Core Infrastructure
- Databases & OLAP Systems: Hands-on experience with databases, OLAP, or distributed systems (ClickHouse, SQL engines, or cloud-native SaaS infrastructure).
- Systems Fundamentals: Strong software engineering fundamentals (CS, Data Science degree, or comparable hands-on project experience) with comfort reading code, working with data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Spark), or debugging cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Distributed & Operational Rigor: Comfort working in a global, remote-first team aligned to SLA coverage, on-call needs, and async communication.
For Langfuse & AI Observability
- LLM Tooling & Application Dev: Genuine curiosity for LLM application development with hands-on experience building, debugging, or evaluating LLM-powered products using frameworks like Python, TypeScript, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Vercel AI SDK.
- Tracing, Evals & Developer Tooling: Familiarity with LLM observability/eval tooling, prompt workflows, model provider APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), or OpenTelemetry-style tracing to unblock AI-product teams.
- Technical Support & Communication: Strong written communication across registers. You have concise Slack troubleshooting, clear long-form docs/guides, and a customer-first mindset to unblock engineers.
Bonus Points
- Experience with OSS and open-source technologies, as a user, community member, or contributor
- Experience with ClickHouse
- Experience with Langfuse specifically, or with LLM observability/eval tooling more broadly.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with data pipeline technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or RabbitMQ.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 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 USD$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.
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
Additional Information
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & PRIVACY
ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Please see here https: //clickhouse.com/legal/applicant-privacy-notice for our Privacy Statement.
- Role:
- Technical Customer Support Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Observability - EMEA
- Job Type:
- FullTime
Company profile
ClickHouse
clickhouse.comClickHouse is a database company behind the open-source, column-oriented ClickHouse database management system, which generates analytical reports in real time using SQL queries. Its products power real-time analytics, observability through the open source ClickStack, and agentic AI systems with millisecond queries at petabyte scale, and it offers a managed Postgres service in public beta. ClickHouse has acquired Langfuse, an open-source platform for LLM observability, has employees in over 10 countries, and says more than 100k developers use its technology.
- Founded
- 2016
- Funding Stage
- Series B
- Key Investors
- Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital, Lightspeed, Redpoint