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About PostHog
PostHog helps engineers build better products. We are a single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. We give engineers product analytics, session recording, feature flags, A/B testing, event pipelines, SQL access, and a data warehouseā¦ and thereās plenty more to come.
PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinatorās W20 cohort and had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 - with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 35,000 companies have installed the platform. Weāve had huge success with our paid upgrades, raised $27m from some of the worldās top investors, and have shown strong product-led growth - 97% driven by word of mouth.
Despite the š tech market, weāre default alive and doing better than ever!
PostHog makes money from our cloud product, or people can self host the open source project. We average 10% monthly revenue growth and are aiming for $10m ARR in early 2024. While others are focused on layoffs and struggling to grow into huge valuations, weāre focusing on an awesome product for end users, hiring a handful of exceptional team members and seeing fantastic increases in revenue as a result.
What we value
We are open source - building a huge community around a free-for-life product is key to PostHogās strategy.
We aim to become the most transparent company, ever. In order to enable teams to make great decisions, we share as much information as we can. In our public handbook everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, what our strategy is, and who we have raised money from.
Working autonomously and maximizing impact - we donāt tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what is going to have the biggest impact on our customers.
Solve big problems - we havenāt built our defining feature yet. We are all about shipping fast, talking to users, and iterating.
Who weāre looking for
Weāre looking for a Clickhouse Engineer to join our Data Warehouse team. The Data Warehouse team is responsible for the Clickhouse cluster and query layer that all other teams (and all customers) use to store and query data. Youāll help manage and operate the cluster, figure out the best architecture, and make it š
What youāll be doing
Develop tooling for full and incremental backup and restore processes for ClickHouse clusters.
Create schema and mutation management tools to make it easy for teams at PostHog to manage their own tables.
Enhance visibility into cluster statuses.
Automate dynamic provisioning of instances, utilizing Terraform and Ansible.
Build query benchmarking and performance tooling to help engineers in identifying and optimize expensive queries.
Make everythingāschema, queries, and cluster configurationsāfaster and more efficient.
Requirements
Proficiency in Python, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Experience building and operating high-scale complex data storage solutions
Strong interest and experience in ClickHouse (or similar OLAP databases) internals and query performance optimization.
Can thrive in a culture of autonomy and self-direction.
Nice to have
We believe people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product and our company better. Thatās why we dedicated a page in our handbook to diversity and inclusion. No matter your background, weād love to hear from you! Alignment with our values is just as important as experience! š
Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if thereās any way we can make the interview process better for you - weāre happy to accommodate!
Benefits
What we offer in return:
