PostHog

Backend Engineer

PostHog

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPythonRustSparkTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Owning large-scale systems from idea to deployment. You’ll drive projects from concept to production, designing solutions that meet our internal user needs and scale effortlessly. You’ll choose the right tools, optimize for performance, and take full ownership in deploying, monitoring, and refining systems to ensure they deliver real impact. This is about building with purpose and seeing it through.
  • Collaborating with Product teams. The Product Engineers are our users. The product direction of the teams relying on your services is what drives you, and you like proactively getting involved to make sure product ideas scale
  • Talking to our internal users. Good Backend Engineers read feedback from their internal users and iterate quickly. Great Backend Engineers have internal users they're friendly with, talk with them frequently, bounce ideas off them, and iterate with them when they ship new things.
  • Doing support. Every week, one person in each engineering team is designated as the Support hero. Their job is to investigate and resolve issues reported by users for their product. Giving internal users support, and shipping fixes and improvements in real-time, is one of the best ways to spark joy in our internal users. This role will also include some on-call time, too.
  • Writing docs. We have a content team that will collaborate with you on reviewing, polishing, and improving your documentation, but the best person to document a new feature is the person who built it.

Requirements

  • Backend experience with relevant technologies - e.g. Rust, Python, Typescript/Node.Js
  • Experience with infra/cloud technologies - eg. Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
  • Database experience: We use PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, but any OLAP experience is welcome.
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems
  • Experience taking a project from 0 to 1. You might have led a project, been a founder previously, or built an impressive side project.
  • Strong writing skills. We document everything, most of it publicly. The ability to communicate your ideas and make persuasive arguments is essential.
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Hard Skills & Tools
RustPythonTypescriptNode.JsKubernetesTerraformAWSPostgreSQLClickHouseOLAP
Soft Skills
strong writing skillscommunicationcollaborationuser feedback iterationproblem-solving