Senior Payroll Analyst, ClickHouse
$120-170k
Actual salary depends on location. Offers stock options
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Be an early applicant
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-170k
Actual salary depends on location. Offers stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- If you’ve worked in high-growth environments, take initiative without being asked, and care deeply about getting things right while continuously improving how they’re done, you’ll do well here
- 3–5 years of payroll experience with demonstrated ownership of multi-state U.S. payroll
- Experience operating in a high-growth technology or SaaS company where priorities evolve quickly
- Strong sense of ownership - you take responsibility for outcomes and proactively drive work forward
- Experience with international payroll coordination is a meaningful plus
- Experience with payroll platforms such as Workday, Deel, or similar systems
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail - you consistently catch issues before they become problems
- You raise issues early and propose solutions, not just problems
- High level of discretion and professionalism when handling sensitive information
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner effectively across teams
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Payroll Analyst who operates with high ownership, precision, and a builder mindset. This role is not just about running payroll, it’s about helping design and scale payroll operations in a fast-growing, globally distributed company where not everything is fully defined yet
- Own and execute multi-state U.S. payroll with a high bar for accuracy, timeliness, and completeness
- Maintain data integrity across payroll systems, including new hires, terminations, compensation changes, and deductions
- Partner with third-party providers to support international payroll, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- Prepare and reconcile payroll journal entries for monthly close in partnership with Accounting
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll tax requirements, including quarterly and annual filings
- Serve as a trusted and responsive point of contact for employee payroll questions, delivering clear and professional support
- Own W-2 preparation and year-end reconciliation
- Identify gaps in payroll processes and proactively design improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability
- Prepare payroll-related documentation to support internal and external audits
- Collaborate cross-functionally with HR, Equity Administration, and Legal on payroll-adjacent matters
- Continuously improve payroll workflows and systems to reduce manual work and support company growth
Our take
Database management systems have long been important to the operations of businesses. However, these systems can be painfully slow. ClickHouse solves this problem with its ultra-fast database management system, that powers real-time analytics and apps.
ClickHouse's founding team hail from companies including Yahoo!, Netflix, Salesforce and Google. This has not only lent the company an impressive amount of credibility, but has also allowed it to identify the needs and challenges of enterprises when it comes to their databases. Its system works between 100 and 1,000 times faster than traditional options, and has led to the company being trusted by the likes of eBay, Uber and Spotify.
It has seen substantial funding too, the most recent of which is cited to help advance its platform across multiple use cases. Alongside this funding, it recently announced the acquisition of LibreChat, an open-source AI chat platform, allowing ClickHouse to launch its Agentic Data Stack. This move positions the company at the forefront of agentic analytics, allowing organizations to interact with massive datasets through AI agents, and demonstrates ClickHouses's commitment to shaping the future of real-time,. intelligent data analysis.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$400m
LATE VC
May 2025
$350m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites
Company HQ
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Aaron Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to ClickHouse, Aaron spent 6 years at Elastic as CRO and Strategic Advisor. He also spent 12 years at salesforce, joining as a Regional VP of Sales before working through various roles to become the Senior VP of Enterprise Sales.
Yury Izrailevsky
(Co-Founder & President)Previously, Yury spent 3 years at Google as a VP of Engineering, 8 years at Netflix as a Director of Cloud and Systems Infrastructure and VP of CLoud Computing and Platform Engineering, and 8 years at Yahoo! as a Manager of Yahoo Data Warehouse and Director of Engineering.
Alexey Milovidov
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to becoming CTO in 2021, Alexey was the Head of CLickHouse and Yandex for over 13 years.
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