Backend Engineer, PostHog

• You might call yourself a node engineer, a backend engineer or a distributed systems engineer
• You’re a senior engineer, and you love both going deep optimizing service and thinking about what the product should do (and working directly with customers to figure it out)
• You have experience with either typescript/node or rust, and are happy to work in both
• You have experience building a system that has to deal with high volumes of requests/data
• You can choose a sensible architecture quickly, and then ship it faster than other people think is possible

Desirable

• We’re growing very quickly at PostHog, and the amount of data we’re ingesting is growing even faster
• You’ll be responsible for capturing data, processing it reliably at very high scale, and building a workflow/delivery engine
• We process 10s of billions of events a month
• We’re in the middle of building a high-volume workflow and processing engine that gives our customers a lot of flexibility in how to send data
• One day, you’ll be making high-level architecture decisions, the next you’ll be optimizing a niche part of our pipeline that massively increases throughput 2x, the day after you’ll work directly with customers to build something to help them send data to a 3rd party