Remote Documentation Engineering Manager

ClickHouse, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

A USD$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking a Documentation Engineering Manager to lead a small, highly technical team and contribute to both technical writing and the engineering of the documentation site and its supporting infrastructure. This hands-on player-coach role can directly influence how documentation and related tooling evolve with the product.

You'll own site reliability, CI workflows, and contributor processes, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Learning, Support, and the open-source community to

Qualifications

• Experience managing a technical team and delivering docs-focused products.
• Hands-on leader comfortable switching between management and technical work.
• Proven ability to investigate functionality, read source code, and document complex software.
• Experience building and operating production websites with reliability and performance discipline.
• Familiarity with docs-as-code workflows and modern software-development practices.
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration across teams.
• Experience applying AI to documentation while maintaining accuracy and trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead the documentation engineering team and stay hands-on in writing and engineering.
• Own the reliability, availability, and evolution of the ClickHouse docs site.
• Research, write, and validate technical docs from product source code and testing.
• Define and execute documentation strategy with Engineering, Product, and Community.
• Improve docs-as-code workflows for engineers, PMs, and external contributors.
• Review PRs, triage issues, unblock contributors, and author high-impact content.
• Build and maintain infrastructure, publishing systems, automation, CI, monitoring, and QA.
• Establish AI-driven quality standards for documentation across the org.
• Collaborate with ClickHouse teams to translate needs into documentation processes.
• Ensure documentation is accurate, discoverable, and aligned with product pace.

Skills

Team management

Hands-on leadership

Technical writing

Production website reliability

Docs-as-code workflows

Cross-functional communication

AI in documentation

Agile / fast-paced environment

Tools

Astro

TypeScript/JavaScript

GitHub Actions

CI pipelines

Job description

ClickHouse is seeking a Documentation Engineering Manager to lead a small, highly technical team and contribute to both technical writing and the engineering of the documentation site and its supporting infrastructure. This hands-on player-coach role can directly influence how documentation and related tooling evolve with the product.

You'll own site reliability, CI workflows, and contributor processes, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Learning, Support, and the open-source community to