Senior Software Engineer - Integrations - AI/ML
Hybrid (Germany)Full-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineer specializing in the AI/ML ecosystem focused on owning and evolving ClickHouse's Python connector and SDK ecosystem, driving AI/LLM integration strategy, and building production-grade integrations with AI tooling and data workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve ClickHouse's Python connector and SDK ecosystem, raising the bar on performance, reliability, and API design
- Drive the AI/LLM integration strategy: designing connectors and patterns that make ClickHouse a natural fit in RAG architectures, ML feature pipelines, and LLM-powered data applications
- Engage actively with the open-source community: triage issues, support contributors, advocate for users, and shape the roadmap based on real-world feedback
- Collaborate with Product, Cloud, and other engineering teams to align integration work with broader platform priorities
- Bring a practitioner's perspective to roadmap decisions, grounding prioritization in genuine Data Engineer and Data Scientist workflows
Qualifications
- 7+ years of software development experience, including hands-on time as a 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 that shipped and ran in production
- Solid experience with the Python data ecosystem: Pandas, NumPy, Pydantic, and related libraries
- Strong database fundamentals: SQL, data modeling, query optimization, and 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 with open-source communities
Skills
Required:Python connector design and SDK developmentAI/ML in production data engineeringPython data ecosystemSQL and OLAPConcurrency in Python
Nice to have:Open-source collaboration
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards healthcare
- Equity in the company - stock options
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
- A $500 Home office setup
- Global Gatherings – company-wide offsites
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About ClickHouse
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ClickHouse is a fast open-source column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real-time using SQL queries
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