Backend Engineer

Summary

Join PostHog, a rapidly growing, remote-first company, as a Senior Engineer specializing in data ingestion and processing. You will be responsible for capturing and processing massive volumes of data, building a high-volume workflow engine, and making high-level architecture decisions. The ideal candidate possesses experience with TypeScript/Node or Rust, a proven ability to build high-volume systems, and a knack for rapid development and deployment. PostHog offers a generous compensation package, unlimited time off, private medical insurance (US and UK only), pension contributions, parental leave, training budget, and various other perks. We are a globally distributed team, currently hiring within GMT-8 and GMT+2 time zones.

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