ClickHouse is a fast open-source column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real-time using SQL queries. Backed by Index.
About the role
As an Enterprise Solutions Architect at ClickHouse, you'll own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in the North Central United States. This role serves our Enterprise segment across the North Central region, and the ideal candidate would be based in Minneapolis or Chicago. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Deep technical foundation in data infrastructure - built through experience as a data engineer, platform engineer, software engineer, DBA, or solutions architect
- Production experience with analytical databases (ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Druid, Pinot, Vertica) and with operating them, not just querying them
- Distributed systems judgment: partitioning, replication, consistency trade-offs, query execution, and a felt sense for where things break under load
- Fluency across the modern data stack - Kafka and CDC pipelines, orchestration, object storage, BI tools, and at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) at architecture level
- Experience running a technical evaluation against a named competitor and winning it, including designing the migration off the incumbent and the parts of it that are genuinely hard
- Customer-facing experience with real stakes - pre-sales, consulting, technical account management, or a staff-level engineering role that put you in front of customers
More about this role
As an Enterprise Solutions Architect at ClickHouse, you'll own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in the North Central United States. This role serves our Enterprise segment across the North Central region, and the ideal candidate would be based in Minneapolis or Chicago.
You'll engage with data platform engineers, architects, SRE, and the VP who owns the standard - and your job is to design something that satisfies all of them and then prove it at production scale. Getting an enterprise team there usually means moving them off something else, so most of your work is making that migration credible: the architecture, benchmarks run against their own data, and a plan their engineers believe they can execute.
This is a role for engineers who want the hard version of the problem: real scale, real constraints, and an incumbent to displace. Prior pre-sales experience helps but isn't required - technical depth is non-negotiable.
Own the technical evaluation for enterprise accounts - from discovery through POC or competitive bake-off, architecture sign-off, security review, and first production workload.
Engage across a wider set of stakeholders than a single...
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