Technical Customer Support Engineer

Summary

Join ClickHouse, a company behind the popular open-source, high-performance columnar OLAP database management system, as a Technical Support Engineer. This remote position involves providing excellent customer service to users, customers, and prospects worldwide. You will be responsible for supporting and guiding users through various channels, developing solutions based on ClickHouse Cloud and ClickHouse open-source, working closely with other teams, and assisting with mentoring and knowledge sharing. The ideal candidate will have technical breadth and depth in ClickHouse open-source or ClickHouse Cloud, previous technical experience in relevant roles, strong communication skills, and a mindset of teamwork, global engagement, and problem-solving. This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and contribute to building a scalable, high-performing database.

Requirements

• Technical breadth and depth in ClickHouse open-source or ClickHouse Cloud, or in domains relevant to ClickHouse, such as: SQL databases, OLAP, cloud-native SaaS, distributed systems
• Previous technical experience in roles such as Support Engineer, Consultant, Database Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Software Engineer, and/or Systems Engineer
• Be present and available according to the scheduling required to deliver high-quality 24x7 Support in a global, distributed environment
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills and the ability to work fully remote with reliable connectivity
• A mindset of teamwork, global engagement, empathy, and solving challenging problems
• A sense of adventure and urgency in building the most scalable, high-performing, largest, and fastest databases on the planet
• The ability to build trusted relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners
• You are self-driven, curious, and eager to continuously learn and grow

Responsibilities

• Supporting and guiding our ClickHouse users, customers, and prospects via cases, chat, Slack, community, and meetings
• Develop solutions based on ClickHouse Cloud and ClickHouse open-source that can be shared with our users, community, and customers via documentation, knowledge base, blogs, meetups, webinars, and training
• Work closely with our global Support Services, Engineering, Go to Market, and Product Management teams to help define functionality required by users and customers
• Assist with mentoring, training, and sharing your knowledge with colleagues, users, and customers
• You will deliver excellent customer service as a first-line technical engineer and representative of ClickHouse
• Our Support Engineers provide professional response, on-call coverage, and guidance within the required Service Level Agreements ("SLAs") on technical cases that are opened via a ticketing system, email, Slack, chat, and/or phone
• You will build strong, trusted relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees
• 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 all countries
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
• Employee-driven international mobility - we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations)