# Backend Engineer
**Company:** [PostHog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/posthog)
**Location:** Remote
**Skills:** Node.js, Go, Rust, Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, S3, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-22
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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
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