Technical Customer Support Engineer - German speaking (remote)

ClickHouse; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading database technology company is seeking a Technical Customer Support Engineer fluent in German. This remote role involves assisting users through various channels and developing technical solutions. Ideal candidates will have experience with SQL databases and open-source technologies. The company offers a flexible work environment, equity options, and comprehensive healthcare benefits.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Employer contributions towards healthcare

Stock options

Flexible time off

$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Qualifications

• Experience in roles like Support Engineer, Consultant, or Software Engineer.
• Ability to deliver high-quality support in a global environment.
• Self-driven and eager to learn continuously.

Responsibilities

• Support ClickHouse users via chat, calls, and community.
• Develop solutions and share knowledge through documentation.
• Work closely with global teams for user-required functionalities.

Skills

Technical breadth in SQL databases

Previous technical experience

Strong English and German communication

Experience with open-source technologies

Experience with Azure, GCP or AWS

Job description

Overview

Technical Customer Support Engineer - German speaking (remote)

Germany (Remote)

About ClickHouse

Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

We are currently growing our support team at ClickHouse who provides excellent service to our customers around the world. We are seeking a Technical Support Engineer who is fluent in German to join our global Support Engineering team. We hope to find you ready to take on a large variety of tasks related to our customers locally in EMEA as well as more regionally across North America and APJ. This is a customer-facing role that will include customer interactions via chat, calls, Slack messages, and virtual meetings over video. You will be owning a wide variety of tasks: from triaging support tickets to user community support, helping with both pre- and post- sales customer activities, partnering with our Go To Market team with deeply technical aspects of POCs, and suggesting improvements to how we do things in Support at ClickHouse. This is a great opportunity for someone ready to roll-up their sleeves and help us continue to provide excellent customer support to our rapidly growing user base.

Responsibilities

• Supporting and guiding our ClickHouse users, customers, and prospects via cases, chat, Slack, community, and meetings
• Develop solutions based on ClickHouse Cloud and ClickHouse open-source that can be shared with our users, community, and customers via documentation, knowledge base, blogs, meetups, webinars, and training
• Work closely with our global Support Services, Engineering, Go to Market, and Product Management teams to help define functionality required by users and customers
• Assist with mentoring, training, and sharing your knowledge with colleagues, users, and customers

And of course

• You will deliver excellent customer service as a first-line technical engineer and representative of ClickHouse. Our Support Engineers provide professional response, on-call coverage, and guidance within the required Service Level Agreements ("SLAs") on technical cases that are opened via a ticketing system, email, Slack, chat, and/or phone
• You will build strong, trusted relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners

Qualifications

• Technical breadth and depth in ClickHouse open-source or ClickHouse Cloud, or in domains relevant to ClickHouse, such as: SQL databases, OLAP, cloud-native SaaS, distributed systems
• Previous technical experience in roles such as Support Engineer, Consultant, Database Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Software Engineer, and/or Systems Engineer
• Be present and available according to the scheduling required to deliver high-quality 24x7 Support in a global, distributed environment
• Strong written and verbal English & German communication skills and the ability to work fully remote with reliable connectivity
• A mindset of teamwork, global engagement, empathy, and solving challenging problems
• A sense of adventure and urgency in building the most scalable, high-performing, largest, and fastest databases on the planet
• The ability to build trusted relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners
• You are self-driven, curious, and eager to learn and grow continuously
• Experience with ClickHouse
• Experience with OSS and open-source technologies, as a user, community member, or contributor
• Experience with Azure, GCP or AWS
• Experience with data pipelines such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, RabbitMQ, or others

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as Los Angeles, CA, the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, the Seattle, WA, Area, and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.

These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.

An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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