Manager, Documentation Engineering

Location: Europe; France, United Kingdom, Spain, and The Netherlands. Workplace type: Remote.

Company

ClickHouse is an open-source company building a fast, resource-efficient real-time data platform. The Docs team owns technical documentation and the production-facing infrastructure that supports the documentation experience.

What you will do

• Lead execution, development, and prioritization for a small technical Docs Engineering team while contributing hands-on to technical writing and engineering.
• Own the reliability, availability, performance, monitoring, and technical evolution of the documentation website and infrastructure.
• Research product functionality through source code, experimentation, testing, and collaboration, then write and improve technical documentation for developers.
• Define documentation strategy with Engineering, Product, Product Marketing, Learning, Support, Growth, and the open-source community.
• Improve docs-as-code workflows, pull-request review, contributor enablement, publishing systems, automation, CI workflows, and quality checks.
• Establish documentation quality safeguards for AI agents, coach authors, resolve priorities, and improve product adoption through accurate and discoverable documentation.

Requirements

• Experience managing and developing a technical team.
• Ability to work hands-on across people management, technical writing, software engineering, process design, and daily execution.
• Strong technical writing experience producing documentation for complex software products, including reading source code, validating behavior, and translating findings for developers.
• Experience building, maintaining, and operating production websites, with knowledge of reliability, availability, performance, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Strong experience with documentation-as-code workflows and modern software-development practices.
• Comfort with Astro, TypeScript/JavaScript, GitHub Actions, pull-request workflows, and CI pipelines.
• Experience designing or operating content-quality systems, automation, and contributor workflows at scale.
• Experience working with coding agents and a considered approach to applying AI to documentation without reducing accuracy, consistency, or trust.
• Excellent cross-functional communication, requirements discovery, influence, standard-setting, and execution in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with ClickHouse or similar database technologies.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining an open-source project.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly, globally distributed work environment operating in more than 25 countries.
• Employer healthcare contributions.
• Stock options for every new team member.
• Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
• USD $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to attend company-wide in-person gatherings.