PostHog
ClickHouse Operations Engineer
PostHog
$231k - $253k
Remote (US | EU, UK, EMEA)
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Python
Kubernetes
AWS
DevOps

ClickHouse Operations Engineer

Overview

PostHog is hiring a ClickHouse Operations Engineer to automate, manage, and maintain ClickHouse as they grow towards capturing trillions of events per year.

Job Description

PostHog is a company focused on building an operating system for software builders, starting with open-source product analytics. They are product-led, well-funded, and focused on transparency, autonomy, and shipping fast.

Responsibilities

  • - Build systems and automations for the provisioning and scaling of metal resources (on AWS) for our ClickHouse cluster
  • - Use Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes to automate the dynamic provisioning of instances
  • - Improve and create monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerts that show the health, usage, and performance of our ClickHouse cluster
  • - Investigate and experiment using the latest hardware that cloud providers have to offer to find the optimal setup for our solution

Required Skills

  • - Proficiency in Python, Kubernetes, and AWS
  • - Experience building and operating high-scale complex data storage solutions
  • - Strong interest and experience in ClickHouse (or similar OLAP databases) internals and query performance optimization
  • - Experience automating dynamic provisioning of instances, utilizing Terraform, Ansible, and K8s
  • - Can thrive in a culture of autonomy and self-direction

Benefits

  • - Generous, transparent compensation & equity
  • - Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
  • - Two meeting-free days per week
  • - Home office Coworking credit
  • - Private health, dental, and vision insurance
  • - Training budget
  • - Access to our Hedge House
  • - Carbon offsetting
  • - Pension & 401k contributions
  • - Company offsites
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About the company

PostHog

PostHog started as open source product analytics. We've grown into a product & data toolkit, used by 70,000+ teams. We launched on Hacker News with our MVP – just 4 weeks after we started writing code. The response was overwhelmingly positive. We had over 300 deployments in a couple of days. 2 weeks later, we'd gone past 1,500 stars on GitHub.


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