Engineering Manager – Language Clients

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Recruit, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing team; establish clear expectations and encourage a culture of ownership, agility, and continuous enhancement.

• Define the product and execution strategy for language clients to maintain a competitive edge amid 10x growth.

• Guide the expansion from core client libraries into a wider ecosystem: integrations, SDKs, partner tools, and community-developed extensions.

• Foster effective relationships with product, developer relations, and sales engineering while maintaining engineering focus.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience managing software engineers with a proven history of hiring, developing, and retaining exceptional talent.

• More than 10 years of industry experience in creating developer-oriented tools, open source software, or data-heavy systems.

• Hands-on involvement: you engage with technical designs, review code, and provide guidance through technical feedback.

• Proven experience working with open source communities and building trust in public technical domains.

• Strong product ownership skills — able to set the vision, not merely implement it. Customer-oriented: translates developer feedback into actionable roadmaps and delivers quickly with efficient feedback loops.

• Comfortable driving results in uncertain environments: establishes clear priorities and achieves impact without excessive processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company that supports remote work. We currently operate in over 20 countries.

• Healthcare - Contributions from the employer towards your healthcare costs.

• Equity in the company - Every new team member receives stock options upon joining.

• Time off - Flexible leave policies in the US and generous entitlements in other countries.

• A $500 home office setup for remote employees.

• Global Gatherings – We value the importance of in-person connections and provide opportunities for engagement with colleagues at company-wide offsites.