ClickHouse Operations Engineer
posthog · Remote · Remote ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- ClickHouse focus
- Terraform + Ansible
- Kubernetes & AWS
- Senior level
Join PostHog as a ClickHouse Operations Engineer to manage the infrastructure powering their product analytics and observability suite. You will automate the provisioning and scaling of massive ClickHouse clusters, handling over 100 PB of data while optimizing node-level performance.
The team values autonomy and async communication, offering meeting-free days to focus on deep technical work. You will experiment with cutting-edge hardware and contribute to query optimization tooling within a well-funded, product-led organization.
What you'll do
- Aautomate provisioning and scaling of large ClickHouse clusters
- Optimize node and instance-level performance for diverse workloads
- Manage infrastructure supporting over 100 PB of data
- Experiment with latest cloud hardware to find optimal setups
- Develop query performance tooling and optimizers
- Implement open format backed tables and advanced features
What you'll need
- Deep internal knowledge of ClickHouse or other OLAP databases
- Strong experience automating dynamic instance provisioning
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
- Experience managing high-scale complex data storage solutions
- Familiarity with Python, AWS, and Zookeeper or alternatives
Stack
- ClickHouse
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Python
- AWS
- Zookeeper
How you'll work
- Natively remote company
- Asynchronous communication default
- Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free
- Autonomous teams with flexible structures