Senior Software Engineer - Python and Data Ecosystem

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own and evolve ClickHouse's Python connector and SDK ecosystem, raising the bar on performance, reliability and API design
• ▹Build and maintain integrations with orchestration platforms (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and transformation tools (dbt) to enterprise-grade quality standards
• ▹Drive the AI/LLM integration strategy, designing connectors and patterns for RAG architectures, ML feature pipelines and LLM-powered data applications
• ▹Engage actively with the open-source community: triage issues, support contributors, advocate for users
• ▹Collaborate with Product, Cloud and other engineering teams to align integration work with broader platform priorities
• ▹Bring a practitioner's perspective to roadmap decisions, grounded in genuine Data Engineer and Data Scientist workflows

Requirements

• ▹7+ years of software development experience, including hands-on time as a Data Engineer, Data Scientist or ML Engineer
• ▹Deep, proven experience designing, building and maintaining production-grade Python connectors, SDKs or integrations for at least one major platform (orchestration, BI, MLOps or data transformation)
• ▹Hands-on experience applying AI/ML in production data-engineering contexts: embedding generation, vector search, feature pipelines or LLM-powered tooling
• ▹Solid experience with the Python data ecosystem: Pandas, NumPy, Pydantic and related libraries
• ▹Strong database fundamentals: SQL, data modeling, query optimization, familiarity with OLAP/analytical databases
• ▹Solid experience with concurrent Python: threading, multiprocessing and async patterns
• ▹Outstanding written and verbal communication, comfortable collaborating across engineering functions and open-source communities

Nice to have

• ▹Prior experience as a Data Engineer or Data Scientist in a product-facing or platform role
• ▹Familiarity with ClickHouse or similar high-performance OLAP platforms
• ▹Familiarity with the JVM ecosystem
• ▹Experience deploying AI/ML models in production, including inference APIs and vector databases

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible, remote-friendly work environment across 20+ countries
• ▹Employer contributions towards healthcare
• ▹Equity in the company for every new team member
• ▹Flexible time off
• ▹$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees
• ▹Company-wide in-person offsites

About the company

The Connectors team is the bridge between ClickHouse and the broader data ecosystem, building and maintaining integrations that make ClickHouse accessible to millions of developers, data practitioners and AI agents - from visualization plugins like Tableau, PowerBI, Superset and Metabase to data frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink and Kafka Connect.