Engineering Manager - China

Job description

ClickHouse is seeking an engineering manager to lead our team of software engineers based in China who own our partnership with Alibaba Cloud.

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 - blogs, conference presentations, technical documentation

• Open-source contributions in the database or cloud-native ecosystem

• Exceptional problem-solving skills with proven experience debugging complex production issues