clickhouse - Senior Consulting Engineer - EMEA
Requirements
• 5+ years delivering hands-on technical work for customers, whether your title was consultant, professional services, solutions architect, senior support, SRE or something else • Real depth in databases, whether analytical, transactional or relational • Hands-on SQL. You regularly write complex queries from scratch, and tune and debug them yourself • You've owned implementations, migrations or POCs for external customers from start to finish • Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, GCP and/or Azure) • You've deployed and run workloads on Kubernetes yourself • You give precise technical answers and explain them clearly • Fluent English • Migrating analytical workloads from systems such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery or Elastic • Data pipelines and streaming, such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark or Debezium • Python, Bash or Go • Involvement in open source, as a user, contributor or community member • This role is remote within EMEA, in a country where ClickHouse already hires • Travel to customer sites is part of the job, up to 35% of your time, depending on the project: some need none, others weekly visits • You'll join our EMEA Support Services team, where Support Engineers, Consulting Engineers and TAM Architects work as one team • You'll be part of the on-call rotation, about one week a quarter, with time off in lieu if you're paged at a weekend • A 30-minute call with our recruiter • A conversation with the hiring manager • A take-home exercise, designed to take three to four hours, with three working days to complete it • A 90-minute technical interview with the team: you'll walk us through your take-home, then join a working session where you write and tune SQL live • A final conversation with our VP of Support Services • References, then an offer • The working session is without AI tools, so make sure you're comfortable writing queries from scratch. Download open-source ClickHouse and practise: it's free, easy to install, and great preparation.
Responsibilities
• Turn customer goals into a scoped project with measurable success criteria, sizing and a timeline • Design a target architecture and prove it against the customer's own data: schema and engine design, capacity and sizing, proofs of concept • Do the build: implementation, pipelines and integrations, migration execution, tooling and automation • Measure it before it matters, with benchmarking, load and functional testing, then support the cutover • Tune what production reveals, then hand over with an engagement report and knowledge transfer, so the customer's team can run it without you • Take L1 to L3 cases alongside support engineers when you're between projects • Feed what you see in the field back to Product and Engineering, and turn your work into reference architectures, knowledge base articles and blog posts • Work in a constant feedback loop with the Pre-sales team to ensure that the demos and POCs they present are credible when you put them into production
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. • 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. • EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & PRIVACY
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