ClickHouse Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Compensation details available via compensation calculator

PostHog is a company that helps developers build successful products by providing a suite of tools for analytics, testing, observation, and feature deployment. They offer product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, a CDP, SQL access, and a data warehouse. PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinator's W20 cohort and has seen significant growth, with over 110,000 companies using the platform and $27M in funding.

Team

• Clickhouse

Manager

• James Greenhill

Responsibilities

• Develop tooling for full and incremental backup and restore processes for ClickHouse clusters.
• Create schema and mutation management tools to simplify table management for PostHog teams.
• Enhance visibility into cluster statuses.
• Automate dynamic provisioning of instances using Terraform and Ansible.
• Build query benchmarking and performance tooling to help engineers optimize queries.

Requirements

• The team is globally distributed, currently hiring in GMT-8 and GMT+2 timezones.

Company Information

• About PostHog: PostHog helps developers build successful products by providing a suite of tools for analytics, testing, observation, and feature deployment. They offer product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, a CDP, SQL access, and a data warehouse. PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinator's W20 cohort and has seen significant growth, with over 110,000 companies using the platform and $27M in funding.
• Values:
  • Open source - building a large community around a free-for-life product.
  • Transparency - sharing information openly through a public handbook.
  • Autonomous work and maximizing impact - empowering team members to choose their priorities.
  • Solving big problems - focusing on shipping fast, talking to users, and iterating.

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