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Backend Engineer (EST timezone)

posthog· 19 open roles

Remote RemoteFullTime2 days ago
Salaryest.
$120,000 - $200,000
Experience
Mid
Job Type
FullTime
Posted
2 days ago
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About This Role

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

  • 1
    Help build PostHog's observability suite, including logs, traces, and metrics
  • 2
    Own a product area end-to-end, taking it from alpha to beta to GA
  • 3
    Make architecture calls and ship in the hot path where code decides customer experience
  • 4
    Work across all three products and go deep on one
  • 5
    Ingest, 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

Typically: health coverage
Typically: paid time off
Typically: opportunities for professional growth and development
Autonomy to choose what to work on next based on impact and interest
Flexible and remote work environment with async communication

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