USD per year
Backend Engineer (EST timezone)
- Location: Remote
- Timezone(s): GMT +2 to GMT -8
Job summary
Who we're looking for
We're seeking a backend engineer for our APM team who thrives on challenges of building systems that process Petabytes of data. Someone who gets excited about designing elegant and efficient systems that can handle this amount of data without giving people insomnia. A strong engineer that understands the importance of data integrity and reliability for customers. The ideal candidate has experience with high-throughput data processing systems such as:
- Observability platforms & Open Telemetry instrumentation
- Metric collection systems
- Log aggregation engines
- Streaming and batch-processing pipelines
We use a mixture of Node.JS and Rust for high-throughput processing. We store most of our data in Kafka, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, S3, and Redis, but with the growing volume of data, we're constantly re-evaluating our technological choices. We're looking for someone who understands the principles of designing distributed systems and can use them to pick the best tools for the job.
About the APM Team
The APM team is one of several small teams operating autonomously within the company, allowing a startup-like environment inside a larger company. The team is evenly split on whether pineapple belongs on pizza.
PostHog is a platform that acts like a co-pilot for product development and AI agents to autonomously write code, run analysis, diagnose bugs, and roll out changes. It provides a full suite of tools built to give a single source of truth about customers, including product analytics, session replay, feature flags, and a managed data warehouse.
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