Backend Engineer - Ingestion (Europe/UK timezone)Active

The opportunity

Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook . Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

What you'll do

  • PostHog Code , the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase.

  • A built-in data warehouse , so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

  • PostHog AI , an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps: users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

  • Product-led . More than 450,000 organizations have installed PostHog, mostly: driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

  • Default alive . Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and we're very: efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

  • Well-funded. We've raised more than $180m from some of the world's top: investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

What they're looking for

  • Experience working with highly scalable, event-driven distributed systems
  • You have developed multi-tenant software-as-a-service products
  • Experience with Node.JS, Go, Rust, or similar languages
  • You have worked with Kafka and PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar systems at scale
  • You know how to ship changes quickly without breaking things