Clickhouse

Senior Consulting Engineer - Japan

Japan, Remote. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will design, build, test, and hand over database migrations and integrations for customers. You will work on a broad mix of projects across Japan and take support cases between projects.

What you will 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
  • Do the build including implementation, pipelines, integrations, migration execution, tooling and automation
  • Measure with benchmarking, load and functional testing, then support the cutover
  • Tune production and hand over with an engagement report and knowledge transfer
  • Take L1 to L3 cases alongside support engineers
  • Feed field observations back to Product and Engineering
  • Turn work into reference architectures, knowledge base articles and blog posts
  • Work with the Pre-sales team to ensure demos and POCs are credible

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years delivering hands-on technical work for customers
  • 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
  • Owned implementations, migrations or POCs for external customers from start to finish
  • Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, GCP and/or Azure)
  • Deployed and run workloads on Kubernetes yourself
  • Run distributed systems, such as distributed databases, in production
  • Give precise technical answers and explain them clearly
  • Fluent English and Japanese

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

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Employer contributions towards your healthcare
  • Stock options
  • Flexible time off
  • USD$500 Home office setup for remote employees
  • Global Gatherings

Before you apply

  • 30-minute call with our recruiter
  • Conversation with the hiring manager
  • A take-home exercise
  • A 90-minute technical interview with the team
  • An in-person meeting with our local head of solutions architecture

About the company

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.