Backend Engineer — Ingestion

posthog· 16 open roles

Remote RemoteFullTime1 months ago

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€80,000 - €140,000

Experience

Mid

Job Type

FullTime

Posted

1 months ago

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About This RoleAI processing…

About PostHog Product development used to mean manually writing code, running analysis, diagnosing bugs, and rolling out changes using dozens of tools. PostHog is the only platform that acts like a co-pilot for you (and your AI agents) to do it all – autonomously. We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort . We've since shipped more than a dozen products , including: PostHog Code , the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase. A built-in data warehouse , so users can query product and customer data together using custom

Key Responsibilities

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Default alive . Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
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Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days , and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
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Own the entire service from end-to-end : No committees or overzealous PMs, the destiny of the ingestion pipeline will be in your hands.
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We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
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This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
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What makes this role unique At PostHog you won't get stuck maintaining an obscure microservice or working in the shadows of the product org, instead, you will: Own the entire service from end-to-end : No committees or overzealous PMs, the destiny of the ingestion pipeline will be in your hands.
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You’ll be responsible for developing the infrastructure to capture all that data, process it reliably, and provide it to other parts of PostHog's platform, such as product analytics, feature flags, CDP, and more.

Requirements

Experience working with highly scalable, event-driven distributed systems
You have developed multi-tenant software-as-a-service products
Experience with Node.JS, Go, Rust, or similar languages
You have worked with Kafka and PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar systems at scale
You know how to ship changes quickly without breaking things
Experience with customer data platforms or similar data analytics systems
You've carried a pager and have dealt with incidents
You're comfortable with provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
Experience with benchmarking and profiling tools
Knowledge of observability systems and practices

Perks & Benefits

Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook . Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions . Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.

Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.

Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days , and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.

Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.

Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.