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PostHog is seeking a backend engineer to join their APM team, focusing on building systems that process petabytes of data. The ideal candidate has experience with high-throughput data processing systems and understands the importance of data integrity and reliability. The role involves building PostHog's observability suite, including logs, traces, and metrics, and owning a product area end-to-end. The company values transparency, autonomy, and shipping fast, and is committed to ensuring a fair and accessible interview process.
Key ResponsibilitiesAI-extracted
- 1Help build PostHog's observability suite, including logs, traces, and metrics
- 2Own a product area end-to-end, taking it from alpha to beta to GA
- 3Make architecture calls and ship in the hot path where code decides customer experience
- 4Work across all three products and go deep on one
- 5Ingest, store, and retrieve enormous volumes of telemetry data efficiently and cost-effectively
RequirementsAI-extracted
- Experience with highly scalable, event-driven distributed systems
- Strong understanding of the full data lifecycle at scale, including ingestion and efficient storage and retrieval
- Experience with Node.JS, Go, Rust, or similar programming languages
- Experience working with systems like Kafka, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Redis, or S3
- Ability to take an ambiguous problem, frame it properly, and drive it forward without hand-holding
Perks & BenefitsAI-extracted
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