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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