Engineering Manager - Language clients

ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies, recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead their Language Clients team, focusing on building a high-output culture and expanding the reach of client libraries into the broader open source ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, coach, and develop a high-bar team; set crisp expectations and foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement
• Mentor engineers at all levels, create growth opportunities, and build psychological safety and a healthy, inclusive environment where engineers do their best work
• Shape the product and execution strategy for language clients to stay ahead of 10x growth
• Make opinionated architectural decisions while maintaining a customer-focused, fast-shipping culture
• Establish measurable UX and developer experience benchmarks and own the roadmap to make ClickHouse client libraries best-in-class in the OLAP space
• Lead expansion from core client libraries into a broader ecosystem: integrations, SDKs, partner tooling, and community-built extensions
• Establish and sustain effective collaboration with OSS communities: contribute, build relationships, and earn trust in public technical spaces
• Represent ClickHouse externally at conferences, in community forums, and with partners
• Build productive relationships with product, developer relations, and sales engineering without losing engineering focus
• Know when to protect team capacity and scope — and make that case clearly upward

Requirements:

• 3+ years managing software engineers with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent
• Demonstrated ability to grow engineers into senior contributors and future leads
• Comfortable driving execution in ambiguous environments: setting crisp priorities and delivering impact without over-process
• 10+ years of industry experience building developer-facing tools, open source software, or data-intensive systems
• Hands-on: you engage with technical designs, review code, and guide via technical feedback
• Deep interest in staying on the technological edge - actively follows trends in developer tooling, data, and the OSS space
• Experience collaborating with open source communities and earning trust in public technical spaces
• Track record of external representation: talks, blog posts, community engagement, or partner development
• Strong product ownership — capable of setting direction, not just executing it
• Customer-centric: turns developer feedback into roadmap and ships fast with tight feedback loops
• Startup experience preferred