Senior Consulting Engineer - EMEA

Overview

Hands-on Senior Consulting Engineer delivering ClickHouse projects for customers across EMEA, from migrations off other databases to new real-time analytics builds, working alongside customer engineers from design through handover.

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 demos and POCs they present are credible in production

What you'll need

• 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 give precise technical answers and explain them clearly
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Experience with ClickHouse
• Hands-on Splunk experience
• 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

Details

• Remote within EMEA, in a country where ClickHouse already hires
• Travel to customer sites is part of the job, up to 35% of your time, depending on the project
• Part of the EMEA Support Services team, where Support Engineers, Consulting Engineers and TAM Architects work as one team
• Part of the on-call rotation, about one week a quarter, with time off in lieu if paged at a weekend