Senior Engineering Manager, Managed Postgres Platform

ClickHouse; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Healthcare contributions

Stock options

Flexible time off

Home office stipend

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Managed Postgres Team. You will lead a high-performing group responsible for building and operating ClickHouse Managed Postgres, combining people leadership with technical direction and strong product focus.

You will report to Kaushik Iska and collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, Support, and engineering teams across ClickHouse. This role emphasizes reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers in infrastructure, databases, or developer platforms.
• Experience building and operating a customer-facing stateful service with high availability, durability, security, and performance requirements.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or managed relational databases, including replication, WAL, high availability, recovery, upgrades, observability, or performance diagnosis.
• Technical credibility to engage in architecture and incidents without owning daily implementation.
• Track record of hiring, coaching, developing, and retaining engineers, including senior ICs.
• Strong execution judgment across ambiguity, parallel workstreams, risk, and long-term system health.
• Customer mindset, strong product partnership, clear communication, and distributed-team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team through clear expectations, feedback, development, and performance management.
• Own outcomes across provisioning, fleet management, failover, point-in-time recovery, upgrades, observability, performance, and security.
• Turn customer and business needs into a multi-quarter roadmap with incremental milestones.
• Guide architecture and help senior engineers make explicit, sound tradeoffs.
• Raise operational quality across SLOs, on-call, incidents, maintenance, and automation.
• Work directly with customers and turn recurring pain into product improvements.

Skills

Engineering leadership

PostgreSQL expertise

People management

Architecture & incidents

Roadmapping & strategy

Hiring & coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer mindset

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

ClickHouse is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Managed Postgres Team. You will lead a high-performing group responsible for building and operating ClickHouse Managed Postgres, combining people leadership with technical direction and strong product focus.

You will report to Kaushik Iska and collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, Support, and engineering teams across ClickHouse. This role emphasizes reliability, performance, and developer experience.