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Senior Consulting Engineer - Japan
Customer successRemote — Japan
Published on 2026-08-10
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About this role
Provide hands-on consulting and high-tier technical support to ClickHouse enterprise customers in Japan. The role combines customer project engineering with consultative support, including architecture, implementation, migration, and production guidance. On-site customer travel in Tokyo and regional travel of up to 35% are expected.
About the company
ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database built for real-time analytics on large volumes of data.
The team
Support Services, Professional Services, and Consulting Engineers
Stack
ClickHouseOLAPDBMSAWSGCPAzureLinux/UnixKubernetes
What you'll do
- Design, architect, integrate, implement, test, and document customer solutions.
- Support customer onboarding, production launches, and proofs of concept.
- Provide technical, architectural, and migration assistance.
- Handle L1–L3 support cases when not assigned to customer projects.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Sales on roadmaps and account plans.
- Create documentation, reference architectures, learning materials, and benchmarks.
- Mentor new team members and participate in hiring.
- Support global 24/7 coverage and travel onsite as needed.
What we're looking for
- At least 5 years in professional services, support, technical account management, engineering/SRE, or project management.
- At least 5 years implementing, operating, or supporting scalable distributed database systems.
- Broad technical experience in databases, OLAP, cloud platforms, distributed systems, Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, or big data.
- Experience leading large technical projects with multiple engineers.
- Expertise with a public cloud provider and its infrastructure services.
- Proficiency in both Japanese and English.
Nice to have
- Hands-on ClickHouse experience.
- Experience with open-source technologies.
- Experience with data pipelines such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or RabbitMQ.
Benefits
- Employer contributions toward healthcare.
- Company stock options.
- Flexible time off or generous leave entitlement, depending on country.
- USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Company-wide offsites and gatherings.