About PostHog

• PostHog is a platform that acts like a co-pilot for product development and AI agents.
• Started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort.
• Products include PostHog Code (AI devtool), built-in data warehouse, and PostHog AI (AI-powered analyst).
• Company values: Product-led growth, strong revenue growth, well-funded with $180m+ raised.
• Focus on building great products, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and embracing uniqueness.

Things We Care About

• Transparency: Public company handbook, shared revenue and strategy internally.
• Autonomy: Employees choose impactful work; engineers lead product teams.
• Shipping fast: Small autonomous teams shipping end-to-end products quickly.
• Time for building: Remote-first, async communication, meeting-free days twice a week.
• Ambition: Aim for big problems and optimistic about success.
• Being weird: Encouraged to innovate and do unconventional things.

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage and automate ClickHouse infrastructure as it scales to trillions of events/year.
• Handle ClickHouse operations, scaling infrastructure, node/instance-level performance optimization.
• Build systems and automations for provisioning/scaling large ClickHouse clusters (>100 PB data).
• Experiment with latest cloud hardware for optimal setup; budget provided.
• Use Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes for dynamic provisioning automation.
• Work on bleeding edge ClickHouse features like open format backed tables.
• Contribute to query optimizer development for ClickHouse.

You’ll Fit Right In If:

• OLAP Database Experience: Deep knowledge of ClickHouse or other OLAP databases internals.
• Experience automating dynamic provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Experience with scale and complexity in high-scale data storage solutions.
• Familiarity with Python, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS, Zookeeper (or alternatives).
• Ready to do the best work of your career in a well-funded company with an amazing team.

Salary Information:

• Salary varies by location and experience level.
• Benchmark example (San Francisco): $270,750 - $296,400 + significant equity.
• Open to paying beyond these ranges for exceptional talent.

Location:

Remote Timezones GMT -3 to GMT -8

Employment Type:

Not explicitly stated but implied full-time employment.

Experience Level:

Not explicitly stated but requires strong experience with OLAP databases and automation tools.

Skills Mentioned:

• OLAP Databases (ClickHouse preferred)
• Automation tools: Terraform, Ansible
• Kubernetes (K8s)
• Python
• AWS
• Zookeeper or alternatives
• Query optimization
• Infrastructure scaling and provisioning

Application Process:

1. Application review by talent team
2. 30-min culture interview via video call
3. 45-min technical interview (no live coding)
4. 20-min culture & motivation interview with Blitzscale team member
5. Paid SuperDay project ($1,000 compensation)

Offer if successful

Benefits Include:

• Generous transparent compensation & equity
• Unlimited vacation (with minimum)
• Two meeting-free days per week
• Home office allowance
• Coworking credit
• Private health/dental/vision insurance
• Training budget
• Access to Hedge House workspace
• Carbon offsetting initiatives
• Pension & 401k contributions
• Local hiring and pay practices
• Company offsites