Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers in infrastructure, databases, or developer platforms.
• Experience building and operating a customer-facing stateful service with demanding availability, durability, security, and performance requirements.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or managed relational databases, including replication, WAL, high availability, recovery, upgrades, observability, or performance diagnosis.
• Technical credibility to engage deeply in architecture and incidents without owning daily implementation.
• A record of hiring, coaching, developing, and retaining engineers, including senior ICs.
• Strong execution judgment across ambiguity, parallel workstreams, risk, and long-term system health.
• A customer mindset, strong Product partnership, clear communication, and distributed-team leadership.

Nice to have

• Managed PostgreSQL, relational database, or cloud control-plane leadership.
• PostgreSQL internals, extensions, replication, storage, performance, or database reliability depth.
• AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or multi-region experience.
• Experience taking infrastructure from early adoption through general availability.
• Open-source, technical writing, speaking, startup, or founder experience.

What you'll be doing

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team through clear expectations, feedback, development, and direct performance management.
• Own outcomes across provisioning, fleet management, failover, point-in-time recovery, upgrades, observability, performance, and security.
• Turn customer and business needs into a multi-quarter roadmap with incremental milestones.
• Guide architecture and help senior engineers make explicit, sound tradeoffs.
• Raise operational quality across SLOs, on-call, incidents, maintenance, and automation.
• Work directly with customers and turn recurring pain into product improvements.
• Align dependencies, surface risks early, and keep execution predictable across a distributed organization.
• Hire the right mix of PostgreSQL, systems, infrastructure, reliability, and product engineering talent while fostering ownership and clear technical debate.

Perks and benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 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 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.