Technical Customer Support Engineer - German speaking (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.

What you will be doing:

• 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

What you bring along:

• 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

Bonus points:

• 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, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location. 

The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed c