Engineering Manager - Control Plane Platform Engineer

About this role

Lead the team building ClickHouse Cloud’s shared Control Plane platform. The role combines people management, technical direction, platform strategy, and operational ownership, with a focus on helping engineering teams integrate and deliver products reliably.

About the company

ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database built for real-time analytics on large volumes of data.

The team

Control Plane Platform team, responsible for shared services, API standards, deployment patterns, developer experience, and observability.

Stack

What you'll do

• Recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing, globally distributed team.
• Own platform outcomes across APIs, shared services, infrastructure, CI, developer experience, disaster recovery, and observability.
• Guide architecture and lead cross-team migrations, deprecations, and contract changes.
• Engage in designs and code for complex platform areas, including routing, authentication, event delivery, and multi-region rollouts.
• Own SLOs, reliability, on-call quality, and cost efficiency for multi-tenant services.
• Build self-service tools, golden paths, and automation to reduce support toil.
• Define the platform vision and roadmap, and build cross-org consensus through RFCs.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years in software engineering and 3+ years managing software engineers.
• Experience leading a platform or infrastructure team serving other engineering teams.
• Experience leading distributed global teams and fostering an inclusive, autonomous culture.
• Experience building scalable, available, and secure AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code and progressive delivery.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including hosting independently deployed applications in shared clusters.
• Familiarity with API platforms, OpenAPI contracts, gateways, authentication, RBAC, rate limiting, versioning, and deprecation.
• Track record decomposing a monolith into independently deployable services without stalling product delivery.
• Technical credibility, hands-on design and code engagement, and strong execution judgment.

Nice to have

• Experience with large TypeScript/Node.js monorepos, CI scale, local development, and spec-driven code generation.
• Experience with load balancing, autoscaling, disaster recovery, and failover.
• Experience building CI/CD at scale or internal developer platforms.
• React proficiency.
• Experience making APIs consumable by AI agents through MCP servers, CLIs, or generated skills.
• Experience with ClickHouse or analytics and data-intensive applications.

Benefits

• Company stock options.
• Flexible time off in the US and generous time off in other countries.
• Employer contributions toward healthcare.
• $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Company-wide gatherings and offsites.