Senior Consulting Engineer - Australia

ClickHouse is the open-source, real-time analytical database behind a lot of today's AI. More than 4,000 companies build on ClickHouse, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Tesla and Meta.

As a Consulting Engineer, you're the hands-on engineer on our customers' most important projects. When a customer needs to migrate, integrate, or prove ClickHouse on a real workload, you work in the build alongside their engineers: you design it, build it, test it and hand it over.

You'll work on a broad mix of projects for customers across APJ, from moving large workloads off other databases to building new real-time analytics on ClickHouse. Each one is scoped with clear goals from the start, so you know what success looks like and can get stuck in. It's a fast way to build deep experience across lots of different data problems.

The consulting function at ClickHouse is less than a year old, so you'll help shape how ClickHouse delivers this work as the team grows. Between projects you take cases alongside support engineers, which keeps you close to day-to-day support.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Turn customer goals into a scoped project with measurable success criteria, sizing and a timeline
• Design a target architecture and prove it against the customer's own data: schema and engine design, capacity and sizing, proofs of concept
• Do the build: implementation, pipelines and integrations, migration execution, tooling and automation
• Measure it before it matters, with benchmarking, load and functional testing, then support the cutover
• Tune what production reveals, then hand over with an engagement report and knowledge transfer, so the customer's team can run it without you
• Take L1 to L3 cases alongside support engineers when you're between projects
• Feed what you see in the field back to Product and Engineering, and turn your work into reference architectures, knowledge base articles and blog posts
• Work in a constant feedback loop with the Pre-sales team to ensure that the demos and POCs they present are credible when you put them into production

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 5+ years delivering hands-on technical work for customers, whether your title was consultant, professional services, solutions architect, senior support, SRE or something else
• Real depth in databases, whether analytical, transactional or relational
• Hands-on SQL. You regularly write complex queries from scratch, and tune and debug them yourself
• You've owned implementations, migrations or POCs for external customers from start to finish
• Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, GCP and/or Azure)
• You've deployed and run workloads on Kubernetes yourself
• You've run distributed systems, such as distributed databases, in production
• You give precise technical answers and explain them clearly
• Fluent English

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with ClickHouse
• Migrating analytical workloads from systems such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery or Elastic
• Terraform
• Data pipelines and streaming, such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark or Debezium
• Python, Bash or Go
• Involvement in open source, as a user, contributor or community member

GOOD TO KNOW

• This role is remote in Australia, based in Sydney or Melbourne
• Travel to customer sites is part of the job, up to 35% of your time, depending on the project: some need none, others weekly visits
• You'll join our APJ Support Services team, alongside Support Engineers and TAM Architects
• You'll be part of the on-call rotation, about one week a quarter, with time off in lieu if you're paged at a weekend

HOW WE HIRE

• A 30-minute call with our recruiter
• A conversation with the hiring manager
• A take-home exercise, designed to take three to four hours, with three working days to complete it
• A 90-minute technical interview with the team: you'll walk us through your take-home, then join a working session where you write and tune SQL live
• A final conversation with our VP of Support Services
• References, then an offer

The working session is without AI tools, so make sure you're comfortable writing queries from scratch. Download open-source ClickHouse and practise: it's free, easy to install, and great preparation.

Perks

• 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.