ClickHouse

What is ClickHouse?

ClickHouse is the company behind the open-source database of the same name, a column-oriented OLAP (online analytical processing) database famous for being extremely fast at real-time analytics over huge datasets. Engineers use ClickHouse to power dashboards, product analytics, observability and logging, data warehousing, and machine-learning workloads that need to query billions of rows quickly. Alongside the open-source database, the company sells ClickHouse Cloud, a fully managed service, which is its main commercial product. The technology originated at Yandex, where Alexey Milovidov created it, and it was open-sourced in 2016; the company, ClickHouse, Inc., was then incorporated in 2021 by Aaron Katz (CEO, previously a longtime Salesforce leader), Alexey Milovidov (CTO), and Yury Izrailevsky (President, formerly of Netflix and Google). ClickHouse is remote-first, with a globally distributed team of roughly 623 people. It has raised about $1.05 billion from investors including Index Ventures, Benchmark, Coatue, and Lightspeed, and reached a valuation around $15 billion, and it was named to the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100. Because the product is a high-performance database, the company is deeply technical.

Mission & values

Make the fastest and most resource-efficient real-time data warehouse available to everyone, as open source and as a managed cloud service.

Qualifications

ClickHouse hires the deeply technical roles a database and cloud company needs, and it hires them remotely. On the engineering side: core database engineers (C++, query engine, storage, performance), cloud and platform engineers building ClickHouse Cloud (distributed systems, Kubernetes, multi-cloud), SRE and security, plus data and ML. It also hires product management and design, developer relations and technical writing, and customer-facing technical roles like solutions/sales engineering, support, and professional services, since its users are engineers. On the go-to-market side: sales, customer success, and partnerships, alongside marketing, finance, legal, and people. Application flow lives at clickhouse.com/careers. The big draw for this board is that ClickHouse is remote-first with a globally distributed team, so roles are genuinely remote, though each posting states the eligible countries or regions and work-authorization requirements. Deep systems, database internals, distributed systems, or cloud-infrastructure experience is a strong signal for engineering roles. Check each posting for eligible locations.

Leadership

Hiring process

1. 1

   Apply at clickhouse.com careers

   Browse remote core-database, cloud/platform, SRE, security, product, developer relations, and go-to-market roles and submit through the ClickHouse careers site. Each posting lists eligible locations.

2. 2

   Recruiter screen

   Confirms role fit, level, eligible location and work authorization, remote setup, and pay.

   About 7 days

3. 3

   Technical or role-specific interview

   Engineering: coding and system design, often with database internals, performance, or distributed-systems depth. Product/design: portfolio and case. Go-to-market: a technical or discovery scenario.

   About 10 days

4. 4

   Team interviews

   Cross-functional interviews with the team on depth, remote collaboration, and fit.

   About 10 days

5. 5

   Offer

   Offer with base plus equity (and OTE for go-to-market roles), aligned to role and location.

   About 7 days

Funding

Awards & recognition

• Reached a ~$15B valuation on ~$1.05B raised · 2026

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• Named to the Forbes Cloud 100 · 2025

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Company information

• Industry: Database / Real-Time Analytics (OLAP)
• Location: Remote-first (HQ Bay Area, USA; global team)
• Founded: 2021
• Employees: 623
• Website: clickhouse.com ↗
• LinkedIn: Company page ↗

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