Location: Remote   |   Full-Time
ClickHouse Database Data Engineering Automation Scale Petabyte Scale Infrastructure Backend Open Source Remote Back End Engineer Data Engineer 
Company: PostHog helps engineers build better products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay, a data warehouse, CDP and many more. We are open source, building a dev tool, and growing through autonomy and transparency. We operate at a massive scale.

Role: We are looking for a "cracked" Clickhouse engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for helping automate, run, and scale our Petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster, which powers our product analytics and data warehouse capabilities.

Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain automation for managing our large-scale ClickHouse cluster.
- Optimize ClickHouse performance for complex analytical queries at scale.
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of our ClickHouse infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the ClickHouse cluster.
- Collaborate with backend and product engineers to support data-intensive features.

Ideal Candidate:
- Deep expertise in ClickHouse administration, performance tuning, and operations.
- Proven experience managing large-scale, high-throughput database clusters (preferably ClickHouse).
- Strong skills in automation (e.g., scripting, infrastructure-as-code).
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Passionate about data infrastructure, open source, and solving hard scaling problems.
Post Date: May 19, 2025