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PostHogPostHogUnited States

Backend Engineer

Backend engineer building observability products (logs, traces, metrics) that ingest and query petabytes of telemetry data. Owns product areas end-to-end using Node.js, Rust, Kafka, ClickHouse, and similar technologies.

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About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build PostHog's observability suite: Logs, Traces, and Metrics
  • Ingest, store, and retrieve enormous volumes of telemetry at petabyte scale
  • Own a product area end-to-end from alpha to GA
  • Make architecture decisions and ship in the hot path
  • Work across all three products and go deep on one

Requirements

  • Experience with highly scalable, event-driven distributed systems
  • Strong across the full data lifecycle at scale: ingestion, efficient storage & retrieval
  • Experience with Node.JS, Go, Rust, or similar
  • Worked at scale with Kafka, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Redis, or S3
  • Can take ambiguous, greenfield problems and drive them forward
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS
  • Ship changes quickly without breaking things

Nice to Have

  • Knowledge of observability systems & practices (OpenTelemetry, logs/metrics/traces at scale)
  • Experience with high-throughput log aggregation, metric collection, or tracing systems
  • On-call and incident response experience
  • Comfortable provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with benchmarking and profiling tools

Skills

Node.jsGoRustKafkaClickHousePostgresRedisS3OpenTelemetryDistributed Systems
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