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ClickHouse Operations Engineer

PostHog Remote FullTime Engineering Posted 3w+ ago
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What it’s like to work at PostHog

Open-Source Product Analytics · Fully Remote

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Employee Rating
4.5
Work-Life Balance
16
Open Roles
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What employees love

  • Extreme transparency — public handbook, open-source everything, radical autonomy
  • Generous compensation with competitive pay, equity, and home office budget

What could be better

  • Small team means limited career progression paths
  • Top-down decision-making can sometimes override team input
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About the Role

About PostHog

We're shipping every product that companies need from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build products.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

Next on the roadmap are CRM, Workflow, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product, we really mean it!

We are:

  1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

  2. Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

  3. Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.

What you'll be doing

ClickHouse is the core piece of infrastructure at PostHog. Every product and customer relies on it to ingest, store, and query data.

We need someone to automate, manage, and maintain ClickHouse as we grow towards capturing trillions of events per year and having one of the world’s largest clusters.

This includes ClickHouse operations and scaling infrastructure, as well as node and instance-level performance optimization. We want to ensure that we have the right hardware deployed at the right time for each workload on ClickHouse.

You'll build systems and automations for the provisioning and scaling of our large ClickHouse clusters, handling over 100 PB's of data. You'll have the ability to investigate and experiment using the latest hardware that cloud providers have to offer in order to find the optimal setup for our solution. And yes, You'll have a budget to do this.

You'll be using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes to automate the dynamic provisioning of instances and work on a bleeding edge ClickHouse implementation, like open format backed tables, and not just maintenance.
We're also building a query optimizer for ClickHouse, which means you will work on query performance tooling.

You’ll fit right in if:

If this sounds like you, we should talk.

We are committed to ensuring a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know.

What’s in it for you?

Now that we've told you what you'll be building with us, let's talk about what we'll be building for you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at PostHog?
PostHog has a work-life balance score of 4.5/5 based on employee reviews. This is above average, suggesting the company genuinely respects work-life boundaries.
What is PostHog’s culture like?
PostHog is characterized by these culture values: open-source, transparent, async, remote, flat, many-hats. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 4.3/5. Extreme transparency — public handbook, open-source everything, radical autonomy
How many open roles does PostHog have?
PostHog currently has 16 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in Remote. PostHog is a remote-friendly company, with many roles available for remote work.
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