Senior Design Engineer - Design System & Platform UI

ClickHouse is hiring a Senior Design Engineer - Design System & Platform UI for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $142k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on ClickHouse.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
The posting lists this role as remote.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Cursor and Claude Code.
Level lists 206 other open roles at ClickHouse.
The role was posted within the past week.

AI in this role

Build and maintain accessible React components and design systems while developing AI-assisted layers like Figma-to-code.

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About the Team
The Design System team owns Click UI - the open-source Design System of ClickHouse. It is the shared UI foundation for ClickHouse Cloud and several other projects. We operate the system as a service and as the clear entry point for all ClickHouse UI work. We focus on building React components that are accessible, performant, well-documented, token-driven, and capable of resolving challenging product requirements.

What You Will Do

Research, build, and maintain accessible React components and their APIs on headless accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) primitives. Keyboard interaction, focus management, and theming are part of each component from the start.
Work on the library enhancements, focusing on consistent and intuitive components API and developer experience improvements. Enable complex migrations with codemods and semantic versioning.
Maintain the shared reliable infrastructure: Storybook, unit, interaction E2E and visual regression tests, accessibility gates, and a reliable release process.
Drive adoption: high quality documentation, usage guidelines, migration guides, issue intake and triage (including open-source issues), and code review with product teams.
Build the AI-assisted layer: Figma-to-code, component scaffolding, and guardrails that keep AI-generated UI on-token, on-pattern, and accessible.

What We Are Looking For

Experience: 6+ years of frontend engineering. You have built or maintained a production design system that multiple teams use, including its migrations and breaking changes.
Core Stack: Deep knowledge of React, TypeScript, semantic HTML, and CSS architecture at scale (SASS, CSS Modules, CSS variables, CSS-in-JS). Experience with component API design (atomic design, composition, controlled and uncontrolled, polymorphic patterns) and headless primitives such as React Aria, Ark UI or Radix.
Accessibility and Tokens: Working knowledge of WCAG 2.x and WAI-ARIA. You implement and test keyboard navigation, focus management, and screen-reader behavior yourself. Experience with design-token architecture and tools (Style Dictionary, Terrazzo, DTCG, or equivalent) and Figma variables sync.
System Mindset: You treat the design system as a product with internal customers. You write clear documentation, review for consistency across the library, and mentor through code review. You measure success by adoption, not by component count. You are fluent in Figma and use AI coding tools (for example Claude Code or Cursor).
Ideal Backgrounds: Design system or UI/UX platform teams at developer tools, B2B SaaS, or cloud platforms, or frontend platform roles with a shared UI library and multi-team consumers.

Perks

Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company 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 – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

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How we rate this

Senior Design Engineer - Design System & Platform UI at ClickHouse rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Design Engineer - Design System & Platform UI is an open job at ClickHouse.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The listed salary is $142k-$250k a year.
The role is based in Europe or US and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 27, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by ClickHouse. Apply on ClickHouse

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Frontend EngineeringDesign SystemsAccessibilityUI ComponentsClaudeCursorClaude CodeReact

Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where frontend engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where design systems was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where accessibility was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where ui components was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used Claude in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: Frontend Engineering, Design Systems, Accessibility, UI Components, and Claude. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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