Engineering Manager - China

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.

We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing technical team in China, fostering a culture of technical excellence and customer obsession
• Support Alibaba Cloud & ClickHouse partnership with deep technical expertise, driving integration, optimization, and go-to-market strategies
• Lead enterprise customer POCs from architecture design to production deployment, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Design PB-scale real-time data warehouse architectures, leveraging ClickHouse's exceptional performance for mission-critical workloads
• Partner with global Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, representing customer needs and driving product innovation
• Represent ClickHouse at technical conferences, meetups, and community events in China

Required Qualifications

• Fluent English and Mandarin for seamless technical discussions with global teams and Chinese customers
• Outstanding customer-facing communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships at all organizational levels
• Deep database expertise - internals, query optimization, distributed systems, OLAP technologies
• Strong architecture design capabilities for large-scale, mission-critical data platforms
• PB-scale real-time data warehouse hands-on experience building and operating production systems
• Cloud-Native proficiency - solid experience with cloud-native architecture and infrastructure, with hands-on knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud)
• Team leadership experience managing technical teams of 10+ engineers
• 8+ years in database/data warehouse/big data technologies
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability - thrives in a high-velocity environment with significant autonomy
• Founder's mindset with a focus on impact, innovation, and delivering measurable results

Preferred Qualifications

• ClickHouse community contributor - active participation through code, documentation, or advocacy
• Experience with columnar databases (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot) and real-time analytics systems
• Kubernetes expertise - practical experience deploying and managing stateful applications on K8s at scale
• Data engineering skills - strong background in ETL pipelines, data replication, CDC, and streaming platforms (Kafka, Flink, Spark)
• Technical writing/speaking experience