PostHog · 17 hours ago
SRE- Clickhouse Team
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelPostHog is an innovative company focused on building products that help businesses run smoothly from their inception to IPO. They are seeking an SRE for their Clickhouse Team to manage a large-scale self-managed ClickHouse installation on AWS, ensuring reliability and efficiency in production systems.
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Responsibilities
Managing large fleets of EC2-based VMs, disks, and networking for data-intensive workloads
Improving operational tooling around deploys, schema changes, backups, restores, and incident response
Working closely with ClickHouse engineers to turn database-level needs into infra-level solutions
Reducing operational load by identifying repeat pain points and eliminating them through code and self-healing automation
Participating in on-call and incident response, with a strong focus on making incidents rarer over time
You’ll have room to design and automate, not just respond to alerts
Qualification
Required
Strong experience operating production infrastructure on AWS
Hands-on experience with VM-based systems (EC2), not just managed PaaS
Experience automating infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar
Solid understanding of Linux systems (disk, memory, networking, failure modes)
Experience supporting stateful systems (databases, queues, storage systems, etc.)
Ability to debug and reason about performance and reliability issues in production
You're comfortable owning systems end-to-end, including on-call responsibilities
Preferred
Prior experience with ClickHouse or other analytical databases
Experience operating systems at very large data scale
Familiarity with Kubernetes (helpful, but not the core of this role)
Company
PostHog
PostHog is an open source platform that helps build successful products by providing tools to evaluate feature impact and customer value.
Founded in 2020
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$182.15MKey Investors
Peak XV PartnersStripeY Combinator Continuity Fund
2025-09-29Series E· $75M
2025-06-09Series D· $70M
2024-01-01Series C· $10M
Leadership Team
James Hawkins
co-ceo
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