Documentation Engineering Manager

Responsibilities: — Lead the execution, development, and prioritization of the Docs Engineering team while remaining hands-on in both technical writing and engineering. — Own the reliability, availability, performance, and technical evolution of the ClickHouse documentation website, treating it as a critical part of the product experience. — Research, develop, and write technical documentation directly, including independently understanding product functionality through source code, experimentation, testing, and collaboration with Engineering and Product. — Define and execute documentation strategy in partnership with Engineering, Product, Product Marketing, Learning, Support, Growth, and the open-source community. — Improve docs-as-code contribution workflows to enable efficient creation and maintenance of excellent documentation. — Review documentation pull requests, triage issues, unblock contributors, and author or improve high-impact content. — Build and maintain the documentation site's infrastructure, publishing systems, automation, CI workflows, monitoring, and quality checks. — Establish organization-wide workflows, safeguards, and quality standards for documentation generated or maintained with AI agents. — Collaborate across teams to understand needs, translate them into documentation processes, coach authors, and resolve priorities. — Ensure documentation remains accurate, comprehensive, discoverable, and aligned with product development pace. — Drive product adoption and growth through intuitive and frictionless documentation experience. Requirements: — Prior experience managing and developing a technical team. — Hands-on leader comfortable with people management, technical writing, software engineering, process design, and execution. — Strong technical writing skills with ability to investigate functionality, read source code, validate behavior, and produce clear documentation. — Experience building, maintaining, and operating production websites with focus on reliability, availability, performance, monitoring, and operational best practices. — Strong experience with documentation-as-code workflows and modern software development practices. — Comfortable working 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 productively with coding agents and applying AI to documentation without sacrificing accuracy, consistency, or trust. — Excellent cross-functional communication skills and ability to influence partners and make progress in ambiguous situations. — Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment. Nice to have: — Experience with ClickHouse or similar database technologies. — Experience contributing to or maintaining an open-source project. Benefits: — Flexible work environment; remote-friendly with operations in over 25 countries. — Employer contributions towards healthcare. — Equity in the company with stock options for new team members. — Flexible time off policies. — USD$500 home office setup for remote employees. — Opportunities for in-person connection at global company-wide offsites.