PostHog is hiring a
Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Security-focused Site Reliability Engineer to join the Infrastructure team at PostHog, a fast-growing company specializing in product analytics. The role involves scaling the infrastructure of their cloud platform, improving security and compliance, and working closely with other teams.

Requirements

• Experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructures (AWS in particular)
• Experience with a range of database technologies such as Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Clickhouse, S3, etc
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, and associated tooling such as Helm
• Motivation to work with other engineering teams to understand their goals and raise the bar of what can be solved by infrastructure
• Infrastructure as Code with tools like Terraform is your default way of working

Responsibilities

• Improving our constantly evolving cloud infrastructure to support new products and ideas at an infrastructure level
• Solving security and compliance issues with technical solutions that don't hinder the pace of product development
• Working with tools such as Envoy, ArgoCD, Karpenter or anything else that enables us to reliably and safely deploy changes
• Working closely with Product and Pipeline teams to provide guidance and build solutions to allow self-service of essential infrastructure and monitoring tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with SOC2, HIPAA or other regulatory frameworks
• Experience scaling and working with Clickhouse

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