Product Engineer - Product Analytics

Summary

Join PostHog, a fully remote, globally distributed company, and help increase the number of successful products worldwide! As a member of the Product Analytics team, you will work full-stack, bridging people and data to empower engineers, PMs, and others to understand product usage. You will contribute to a high-scale event tracking system, integrate with a data warehouse, and develop insights visualization tools. You'll work with Python, TypeScript, SQL, Rust, and C++, tackling scaling challenges and leveraging AI. PostHog offers generous compensation, employee-friendly equity, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Have full-stack experience with relevant technologies (Python or similar, React or similar, something to do with big data is a bonus)
• Have started a project from scratch
• Have led a project, been a founder previously, or built an impressive side project
• Have strong communication skills
• Move fast, have a strong bias for impact and don’t shy away from stepping on toes

Responsibilities

• Work full stack at the intersection of people and data
• Expose powerful tools to help engineers, PMs, and everyone else understand how customers are using their products
• Contribute to our event tracking system, which allows customers to instrument both their front-ends and back-ends to track any metrics they can imagine
• Integrate with our data warehouse, which allows customers to sync data into PostHog from their own databases and third-party sources, unlocking PostHog as the ultimate BI tool
• Build and maintain our own SQL dialect (known internally and affectionately as HogQL), and constantly expand it to make complex queries as easy as possible for our end users
• Be adjacent to our high-scale ingestion pipeline and ClickHouse teams, working together to make whatever user experience you can dream of a reality
• As we grow and continue to ingest more data, face and solve increasing scale challenges, and continue to leverage AI to make it as easy as possible for our customers to discover insights in their data
• Position ourselves as an indispensable tool in our customers’ stacks, not only providing insights, but being a piece of the infrastructure that powers their applications
• Write and master Python, TypeScript, (ClickHouse|Postgres|Hog)SQL, Rust, and a little bit of C++

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked in a high-growth SaaS company
• Have extensive experience with Django and/or TypeScript-based React

Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog
• Permissionless holiday with a 25-day minimum requirement - the team used 31 days on average in 2022
• $300/month towards co-working (or a WeWork membership) and $1,500/quarter for meetups
• Pension/ 401k contributions (4% matching)
• 12 weeks' parental leave after your first year at full pay
• Training budget and free books
• Spill mental health chat
• $100/month budget to provide support to open-source projects
• We'll be your first investor and biggest cheerleader, if you spend two years at PostHog and leave to start a new company
• Generous severance - 4 months from PostHog after you’ve been with us for 3 months (but you only need to provide 1 month's notice)
• Regular team off-sites with carbon offsetting for work travel with Project Wren