Distributed Systems Engineer

PostHog helps engineers build better products. We are a single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. We give engineers product analytics, session recording, feature flags, A/B testing, event pipelines, SQL access and a data warehouse… and there’s plenty more to come.

PostHog was created as an open source project during Y Combinator's W20 cohort and had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 - with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 35,000 companies have installed the platform. We've had huge success with our paid upgrades, raised $27m from some of the world's top investors, and have shown strong product-led growth - 97% driven by word of mouth. 

Despite the 📉 tech market, we're default alive and doing better than ever!

PostHog makes money from our cloud product, or people can self host the open source project. We average 10% monthly revenue growth and are aiming for $10m ARR in early 2024. While others are focused on layoffs and struggling to grow into huge valuations, we're focusing on an awesome product for end users, hiring a handful of exceptional team members and seeing fantastic increases in revenue 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.

• 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.

• Solving big problems - we haven't built our defining feature yet. We are all about shipping fast, talking to users, and iterating.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on huge data challenges (we peak at 1m events/minute and process billions of events) while leading a team of seasoned and smart engineers. You will have incredibly high autonomy and work closely with our customers, who are also engineers. More specifically:

• You'll work closely with the team to plan long-term goals on how to scale the ingestion and export pipeline.

• We've had such a large increase in event scale, we need to re-design how we do ingestion to future proof for the next couple of years, when we'll repeat this (else we'd be over-engineering by definition).

• Maintain a high bar for the team’s quality of work and performance (i.e. incident reviews, stand-ups, etc.) 

• Ship a bunch of code! 

• Infrastructure or data experience

• High ownership, ability to drive big complex products to completion

• Some leadership experience (this is still mostly a shipping role)

• Proven ability to lead big projects to completion

• Real interest in building stuff (we'll need innovation over and over again here!)

• Cheerful attitude

Nice to have

• Node/typescript experience (we may move from node though at some stage...!)

• Comfortable running incidents

If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Alignment with our values is just as important as experience! 🙏