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Backend Engineer Multiple teams
PostHog Enterprise
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- California, United States
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- California, United States
About
there’s plenty more to come . PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 100,000 companies have installed the platform. We've had huge success with our paid upgrades, raised bags of money from some of the world's top investors, and have extremely strong product-led growth – 97% driven by word of mouth. We're growing quickly, but sustainably. We're
also default alive , averaging 10% monthly revenue growth and with more than $20m ARR. We're staying focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring a handful of exceptional team members, and seeing fantastic growth as a result. What we value
We are
open source
- building a huge community around a free-for-life product is key to PostHog's strategy. We aim to become
the
most transparent company, ever. In order to enable teams to make great decisions, we share as much information as we can. In our
public handbook
everyone
can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, what our strategy is, and who we have raised money from. We also have regular team-wide feedback sessions, where we share honest feedback with each other. Working autonomously and maximizing impact - we don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what is going to have the biggest impact on our customers. You might call yourself a node engineer, a backend engineer or a distributed systems engineer. You’re a senior engineer, and you love both going deep optimizing service and thinking about what the product should do (and working directly with customers to figure it out). We are only considering candidates in the following time zones for this role: GMT+ 2:00 to GMT -5:00. What you’ll be doing
We’re growing very quickly at PostHog, and the amount of data we’re ingesting is growing even faster. You’ll be responsible for capturing data, processing it reliably at very high scale, and building a workflow/delivery engine. We process 10s of billions of events a month. We use a mixture of typescript/node and rust for high-throughput processing. We’re in the middle of building a high-volume workflow and processing engine that gives our customers a lot of flexibility in how to send data. One day, you’ll be making high-level architecture decisions, the next you’ll be optimizing a niche part of our pipeline that massively increases throughput 2x, the day after you’ll work directly with customers to build something to help them send data to a 3rd party. Requirements
You have experience with typescript/node, rust, or similar languages. You have experience building a system that has to deal with high volumes of requests/data. You can choose a sensible architecture quickly, and then ship it faster than other people think is possible. Nice to have You’ve carried a pager and have dealt with incidents. We believe people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product and our company better. That’s why we dedicated a page in our handbook to
diversity and inclusion . No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! Alignment with our values is just as important as experience! Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate! We have a set system for compensation as part of being transparent. Salary varies based on location and level of experience. Benchmark (United States - San Francisco, California) $243,000 Step modifier 0.95 - 1.04 Generous, transparent compensation & equity Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!) Two meeting-free days per week Home office Coworking credit Private health, dental, and vision insurance. Access to our Hedge House Carbon offsetting Pension & 401k contributions We hire and pay locally Company offsites Get more details about all our benefits on the Careers page. Your team's mission and objectives
Q2 objectives
Fix property definitions service
We identified several problems with the current implementation of property-defs, which we want to fix in Q2: Break out its data store Reduce the troubleshooting effort Finish moving to capture-rs
We are still running the Django capture service, and we need to transition away from it. In Q2, we will: Move all capture endpoints to capture-rs Improve team's confidence in maintaining the capture layer Develop ownership of ingestion incidents
As the product has matured and the traffic has increased, we need to improve our incident response process. This quarter we'll focus on: Developing a solid process for managing incidents and follow-ups Bring more discipline to handling alerts and exceptions Improve documentation on troubleshooting ingestion problems Reducing the incident response times We're too slow and have too little confidence in the ingestion deployment process. Our plan is to: Switch to a more feature-flag-oriented development process Move all ingestion components to ArgoCD Investigate other mechanisms to reduce the risk of deployments, e.g. blue/green, faster rollbacks We do 2-3 short interviews, then pay you to do some real-life (or close to real-life) work. Application (You are here)
Application (You are here)
Our talent team will review your application
We're looking to see how your skills and experience align with our needs. Culture interview
30-min video call
Our goal is to explore your motivations to join our team, learn why you’d be a great fit, and answer questions about us. Technical interview
45 minutes, varies by role
You'll meet the hiring team who will evaluate skills needed to be successful in your role. No live coding. Founder interview
30 minutes
You have reached the final boss. It's time to chat with James or Tim. PostHog SuperDay
Paid day of work
You’ll meet a few more members of the team and work on an independent project. It's challenging, but most people say it's fun! Offer
Pop the champagne (after you sign)
If everyone is happy, we’ll make you an offer to join us - YAY! Apply
(Now for the fun part...)
Just fill out this painless form and we'll get back to you within a few days. Thanks in advance! Bolded fields are required Name Email Resume/CV or drag and drop here How did you hear about us? Lastly, where are you located? Do you require sponsorship to work in your desired location?
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Nice-to-have skills
- Django
- Node.JS
- Rust
- SQL
- TypeScript
Work experience
- Backend
- Data Infrastructure
- Build/Release
Languages
- English
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