Engineering Manager - Control Plane Platform Engineer

The role

You will lead the Platform team to build the shared foundation for ClickHouse Cloud. This includes owning API gateways, shared platform services, deployment patterns, and developer experience.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team
• Own outcomes across the platform surface including API gateways, shared services, and deployment patterns
• Treat integrating teams as customers to measure success by delivery velocity and adoption
• Guide architecture and help senior engineers make tradeoffs
• Land cross-cutting migrations, deprecations, and contract changes
• Jump into designs and code for complex areas
• Build a culture of operational excellence including SLOs and reliability
• Systematize support and build self-serve capabilities
• Shape the platform vision and turn it into a roadmap

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering
• 3+ years managing software engineers
• Experience leading a platform or infrastructure team whose customers are other engineering teams
• Experience leading distributed global teams
• Experience building scalable, highly available, and secure cloud-based infrastructure in AWS (EKS, SQS, DocumentDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Lambdas)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm)
• Experience with progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts or similar)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with API platform work including OpenAPI-driven contracts, API gateways, authentication, RBAC, rate limiting, versioning, and deprecation
• Track record of decomposing a monolith into independently deployable services
• Technical credibility to engage in architecture and incidents
• Hands-on ability to dive into code/designs and review code

Nice to have

• Experience with large TypeScript/Node monorepos
• Designed and implemented strategies for load balancing, auto-scaling, disaster recovery, and failover
• Experience building CI/CD at scale
• Experience with internal developer platforms
• Proficiency with frontend frameworks (React)
• Experience making APIs consumable by AI agents
• Experience with ClickHouse
• Previous experience in developing analytics or data-intensive applications

Benefits

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

About the company

ClickHouse is a globally distributed company operating in over 25 countries. The Control Plane Platform team builds the shared foundation that every product in ClickHouse Cloud is built and shipped on.