Senior Consulting Engineer - EMEA in London

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast‐growing private cloud companies. With over 2,000 customers and ARR that has more than quadrupled over the past year, ClickHouse leads the market in real‐time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. ClickHouse's momentum was confirmed in its recent $350M Series C financing that included new, tier‐one investors such as Khosla Ventures, BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners. We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

Responsibilities

• Project Engineering & Consulting (50%): Serve as a team member on customer projects, focusing on design, architecture, integration, implementation, and documentation. Tasks include 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 materials, reference architecture documents, 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 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 offerings (e.g., EC2).

Bonus Points

• 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.

You’ll Love This Role If

• 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.

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as Los Angeles, CA; the San Francisco Bay Area, CA; the Seattle, WA area; and the New York City metro area, a premium market range may apply. These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments. Individual placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.

Perks

• Flexible work environment – ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote‐friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• Healthcare – Employer contributions toward 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 – We believe in the power of in‐person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company‐wide off‐sites.

Culture – We All Shape It

As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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.