PostHog is hiring a
Distributed Systems Engineer

Summary

The job is for a remote position at PostHog, a fast-growing company that provides product analytics and related services. The role involves working on scaling the ingestion and export pipeline, leading a team of engineers, and driving big projects to completion. Benefits include competitive compensation, unlimited time off, private medical insurance (US and UK only), pension/401k contributions, generous parental leave, training budget, co-working or café working stipend, mental health support, open-source project support, investment opportunities, team off-sites, and carbon offsetting for work travel.

Requirements

• Infrastructure or data experience
• High ownership, ability to drive big complex products to completion
• Proven ability to lead big projects to completion
• Real interest in building stuff (we'll need innovation over and over again here!)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the team to plan long-term goals on how to scale the ingestion and export pipeline
• 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!

Preferred Qualifications

Comfortable running incidents

Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog
• Unlimited time off with a 25-day minimum (in 2021 the team on average took 32 days off)
• Private medical insurance , including dental and vision (US and UK only)
• Pension/ 401k contributions (4% matching)
• Generous parental, bereavement and child loss leave
• Training budget and free books
• $200/month budget towards co-working or café working and $300/month for team socials
• Spill mental health chat
• $100/month budget to provide support to open-source projects
• We'll be your first investor
• Regular team off-sites (we went to Iceland in March) with carbon offsetting for work travel with Project Wren