Engineering Manager, Database Integrations

Job Description: • End-to-end responsibility for Database (Postgres, MongoDB) and data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake) integrations, including CDC, initial snapshots, schema evolution, backfills, and correctness at scale. • Recruit, coach, and develop a high-bar team; set crisp expectations and foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement. • Jump into designs and code for complex flows (WAL/binlog/oplog handling, LSN/GTID management, idempotency/exactly-once behaviors, backpressure). • Mentor and coach your team — provide regular feedback, create growth opportunities, and support advancement in technical and leadership skills. • Build the culture of operational excellence: Own SLOs, reliability, on-call quality, and arenaflex-efficiency for k8s-hosted, multi-tenant services across cloud regions. • Systematize support, reduce toil, and build self-serve/auto-healing capabilities. • Shape the product vision, transform it into the roadmap, sequence bets for business impact, and ship fast with tight feedback loops. • Inspire blog posts, guides, and talks; present at meetups/conferences to showcase work and lessons learned. • Join key customer calls, turn feedback into roadmap and fixes, and make upgrades/migrations predictable and safe. Requirements: • 3+ years managing software engineers with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent. • Experience leading distributed global teams, fostering an inclusive and autonomous culture, and creating clarity across time zones. • Proven ability to mentor and coach engineers and emerging leaders. • Demonstrated success building highly technical teams that value ownership, speed, and continuous improvement. • Comfortable driving execution in ambiguous environments: setting crisp priorities, sequencing bets, and delivering impact without over-process. • Strong communicator, able to align stakeholders internally and represent the team externally (conferences, blogs, talks). • 10+ years of industry experience building data-intensive or distributed systems. • Hands-on: enjoy diving into code/designs for complex or critical areas, reviewing code, and guiding via feedback. • Deep database replication/CDC expertise and fluency with correctness, ordering, backpressure, and recovery at scale. • Strong Go (or willingness to ramp quickly with prior deep systems language experience). • Kubernetes in production and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience. • Customer-centric: adept at turning feedback and pain points into product wins. • Bias for shipping fast with tight feedback loops, balancing reliability and agility. Benefits: • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 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 – opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites. Apply tot his job

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