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ClickHouse Operations Engineer
OtherRemote — worldwide
Published on 2026-09-16
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About this role
The ClickHouse Operations Engineer will automate, manage, and maintain ClickHouse as PostHog grows, capturing trillions of events per year. This role involves optimizing infrastructure and performance for large data clusters. The engineer will use tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes for dynamic provisioning.
About the company
PostHog builds an open-source product analytics and feature flagging platform. It helps product teams understand usage, run experiments, and ship features with less tooling sprawl.
The team
You will join the Engineering and ClickHouse teams.
Stack
ClickHouseTerraformAnsibleKubernetesPythonAWSZookeeper
What you'll do
- Automate ClickHouse operations and scaling infrastructure
- Optimize node and instance-level performance
- Build systems for provisioning and scaling
- Investigate and experiment with cloud provider hardware
What we're looking for
- Experience with OLAP databases, particularly ClickHouse
- Strong automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
- Experience handling scale and complexity in data storage solutions
- Familiarity with Python and AWS