Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

Join PostHog, a rapidly growing, fully remote company, and contribute to the success of our data processing infrastructure. We're looking for a senior engineer with experience in high-volume data processing using TypeScript/Node or Rust. You'll be responsible for capturing, processing, and delivering massive amounts of data, making architectural decisions, optimizing pipelines, and collaborating directly with customers. We offer a generous compensation package, unlimited time off, comprehensive health insurance (US and UK only), retirement contributions, parental leave, training budget, and various other perks. Our team is globally distributed, and we value transparency, autonomy, and solving big problems.

Requirements

• Have experience with either typescript/node or rust, and are happy to work in both
• Have experience building a system that has to deal with high volumes of requests/data
• Can choose a sensible architecture quickly, and then ship it faster than other people think is possible

Responsibilities

• Capture data
• Process data reliably at very high scale
• Build a workflow/delivery engine
• Make high-level architecture decisions
• Optimize a niche part of our pipeline that massively increases throughput
• Work directly with customers to build something to help them send data to a 3rd party

Preferred Qualifications

Have carried a pager and have dealt with 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