ClickHouse Platform Engineer

PostHog, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

PostHog is seeking a Senior Engineer to own ClickHouse operations and scale for trillions of events. You will automate provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, and optimize hardware for diverse workloads.

You will work in a natively remote environment, collaborating with distributed teams, and contribute to a cutting-edge data platform that powers product analytics at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience with OLAP databases, particularly ClickHouse, and internals.
• Ability to automate dynamic provisioning of infrastructure using IaC.
• Experience scaling high-availability data storage at petabyte scale.

Responsibilities

• Manage ClickHouse operations and scaling across large clusters.
• Automate provisioning and scaling of instances with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Tune performance and hardware selection for workloads and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to a bleeding-edge ClickHouse implementation including open format backed tables.

Skills

OLAP DB experience

Automating provisioning

Scale & complexity

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Zookeeper

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Zookeeper

Job description

PostHog is seeking a Senior Engineer to own ClickHouse operations and scale for trillions of events. You will automate provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, and optimize hardware for diverse workloads.

You will work in a natively remote environment, collaborating with distributed teams, and contribute to a cutting-edge data platform that powers product analytics at scale.