Senior Consulting Engineer - India
ClickHouse · Posted Oct 3
High-performance, column-oriented open-source database and real-time analytics platform
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About the role
ClickHouse's Support Services team delivers exceptional service to customers worldwide, providing consultative support to enterprise users of the ClickHouse open-source column-oriented database. This role uniquely blends hands-on engineering, development assistance, and high-tier support across Consultative Support, Engineering, and Support functions. The Senior Consulting Engineer works directly with strategic customers on design, architecture, integration, implementation, migrations, and POCs, while also handling L1 to L3 support cases and contributing to documentation, reference architectures, and benchmark results.
What you will do
- Project Engineering & Consulting (50%): Serve as a team member on customer projects, focusing on design, architecture, integration, implementation, and documentation. This includes 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, assisting with implementation, onboarding, production launches, and Proof of Concepts (POCs).
- Provide architectural, technical, and migration assistance, including hands-on tasks.
- Work as a member of the Support Team, handling L1 to L3 cases and communications when not actively assigned to customer projects.
- Partner closely with ClickHouse Product Management, Engineering, and Sales to contribute to the product roadmap and account plans.
- Develop and assist with a wide range of content, including Public and Internal Documentation, Knowledge Base articles, ClickHouse Learning, Reference Architecture, blogs, and benchmark results.
- Assist with hiring and mentoring new team members as we grow and scale.
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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)
- You have excellent communication skills and thrive in a customer-facing role, collaborating closely with Support Services, Engineering, and Sales teams.
- You are self-driven, curious, and eager to continuously learn and grow.
- You possess a mindset of teamwork, global engagement, empathy, and a drive for solving challenging problems.
- You have a sense of adventure and urgency in building the most scalable, highest performing, largest, and fastest databases in the world.
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Benefits and support
- 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 ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a high-performance, column-oriented open-source database management system for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables businesses and developers to generate real-time analytical reports and process massive volumes of structured data with extreme speed. The company provides both self-managed deployments and fully managed cloud infrastructure tailored for modern data-intensive and AI-driven applications.
- Industry
- Database
- Company size
- 500-1000 employees
- Founded
- 2021
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Series D
Funding
Series D · $1.05B raised
- 2021-09-01Series A$50M
- 2021-10-28Series B$250M
- 2025-05-29Series C$350M
- 2026-01-16Series D$400M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder & President
Jimmy Sexton
Chief Financial Officer
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