[Hiring] AI Product Engineer @ClickHouse

Role Description

Join us in building the AI layer for Observability! ClickStack is the open-source observability platform we're building at ClickHouse — logs, metrics, traces, and session replays unified so engineers can find root causes quickly.

We're hiring an AI Product Engineer to build agentic capabilities on top of a petabyte-scale observability platform, with a focus on developer experience.

What you'll do:

• Build agents that investigate incidents, surface anomalies, and answer "why is production broken?" using ClickStack as their substrate.
• Write skills, not just prompts, and build a library of reusable skills that captures how our team debugs, finds root causes, writes ClickHouse queries, and runs incident response.
• Own the agent stack end-to-end, including context engineering, tool design, evals, tracing, and cost.
• Make ClickStack a great place to run AI workloads by building MCP servers, SDKs, and integrations.
• Work in the open, collaborating with OSS contributors and customers, debugging their problems, and feeding what you learn back into the product.
• Tackle the hard parts: latency, cost, context window limits, eval coverage, and hallucinations on real telemetry.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 1–2 years on LLM-powered systems or agents in production.
• Strong backend skills in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience building agents: multi-step tool use, planning, memory, error recovery.
• Experience designing skills (Markdown-based workflow encodings, Anthropic-style or similar).
• Experience with MCP: building servers, designing tools, and thinking through auth, scoping, and observability for agentic systems.
• Strong evals practice: golden sets, LLM-as-judge, regression detection.
• SQL proficiency — you can write ClickHouse queries directly.
• Comfort with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Active in open source and the developer community.

Requirements

• Strong opinions on context engineering, tool design, and when to use a skill vs. a tool.
• Ability to think in production terms: p99 latency, cost per task, system reliability.
• Quick movement, frequent shipping, and learning from failures.
• Ability to work well with ambiguity and ownership.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings - Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
• Culture - You will be instrumental in shaping our culture.