Manager, Documentation Engineering

The role

This is a hands-on player-coach role leading a technical team. You will contribute to technical writing and the engineering of the documentation website and its supporting infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead the execution, development, and prioritization of the Docs Engineering team.
• Own the reliability, availability, performance, and technical evolution of the ClickHouse documentation website.
• Research, develop, and write technical documentation by understanding product functionality through source code and testing.
• Define and execute documentation strategy in partnership with various departments.
• Improve docs-as-code contribution workflows.
• Review documentation pull requests, triage issues, and unblock contributors.
• Build and maintain the documentation site's infrastructure, publishing systems, automation, CI workflows, monitoring, and quality checks.
• Establish organization-wide workflows and quality standards for documentation generated or maintained with AI agents.
• Work with teams across ClickHouse to translate needs into practical documentation processes.
• Ensure documentation remains accurate, comprehensive, and discoverable.

Required qualifications

• Prior experience managing and developing a technical team.
• Hands-on leader comfortable with people management, technical writing, software engineering, and process design.
• Strong technical writing skills for complex software products.
• Ability to investigate functionality, read and understand source code, and validate product behavior.
• Experience building, maintaining, and operating production websites.
• Strong experience with documentation-as-code workflows and modern software-development practices.
• Comfort working with Astro, TypeScript/JavaScript, GitHub Actions, pull-request workflows, and CI pipelines.
• Experience designing or operating content quality systems, automation, and contributor workflows at scale.
• Experience working productively with coding agents.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with ClickHouse or similar database technologies.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining an open-source project.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employer contributions towards healthcare
• Stock options
• Flexible time off in the US or generous entitlement in other countries
• USD$500 Home office setup for remote employees
• Global Gatherings and company-wide offsites

About the company

ClickHouse is an open-source company building a real-time data platform. The company is globally distributed and remote-friendly.