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Senior Consulting Engineer - Japan

ClickHouse Japan Remote senior full-time

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Description

We are currently expanding our Support Services team at ClickHouse, which delivers exceptional service to our customers worldwide. We are seeking a Senior Consulting Engineer to join our global team, where you'll provide Consultative Support to our ClickHouse enterprise customers.

The role uniquely blends hands-on engineering, development assistance, and high-tier support, performing functions across Consultative Support, Engineering, and Support. You will work directly with a set of strategic customers, providing guidance, case answers, and technical oversight.

Responsibilities:

  • Project Engineering & Consulting (50%): Serve as a team member on customer projects, focusing on design, architecture, integration, implementation, and documentation.
  • 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.

Requirements:

  • 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)

Perks:

  • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
  • 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.

Skills

Required

  • DBMS
  • OLAP
  • Cloud/SaaS platforms
  • distributed systems software engineering
  • Linux/Unix
  • Kubernetes
  • System or Network Administration
  • big data
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure

Nice to have

  • ClickHouse
  • OSS
  • open-source technologies
  • Kafka
  • Kinesis
  • Spark
  • RabbitMQ

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