Site Reliability Engineer — AWS + ClickHouse, Stateful Infra

JobsinAustria; St. Pölten; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

PostHog is seeking SREs to take deep ownership of production systems, especially a petabyte-scale ClickHouse deployment on AWS. The role centers on turning a fast-growing, stateful platform into a reliable, automated system, with provisioning, scaling, recovery, and self-healing automation at its core.

You'll work across databases and infra, reducing operational stress and building patterns that scale without proportionally increasing human effort.

Qualifikationen

• Prior experience with ClickHouse or other OLAP databases.

Aufgaben

• Managing large fleets of EC2‑based VMs, disks, and networking for data‑intensive workloads.
• Improving operational tooling around deploys, schema changes, backups, restores, and incident response.
• Working closely with ClickHouse engineers to turn database-level needs into infra-level solutions.
• Reducing operational load by identifying repeat pain points and eliminating them through code and self-healing automation.
• Participating in on‑call and incident response, with a strong focus on reducing incident frequency over time.
• Designing and automating, not just responding to alerts.

Kenntnisse

ClickHouse

AWS

VMs

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

On-call

Jobbeschreibung

PostHog is seeking SREs to take deep ownership of production systems, especially a petabyte-scale ClickHouse deployment on AWS. The role centers on turning a fast-growing, stateful platform into a reliable, automated system, with provisioning, scaling, recovery, and self-healing automation at its core.

You'll work across databases and infra, reducing operational stress and building patterns that scale without proportionally increasing human effort.