后端工程师 - 收集（欧洲/英国时区）
Backend Engineer - Ingestion (Europe/UK timezone)
关于 POSTHOG
产品开发过去意味着手动编写代码、运行分析、诊断错误，并使用数十种工具推出更改。
PostHog 让产品实现自动驾驶 https://posthog.com/self-driving。它是唯一一个能像副驾驶一样与你（和你的 AI 代理）一起完成所有工作的平台——自主完成。
我们从开源产品分析工具开始，曾从 Y Combinator 的 W20 学员项目中孵化 https://posthog.com/handbook/story。此后我们推出了十几个产品 https://posthog.com/products，包括：
- PostHog Desktop https://posthog.com/desktop，唯一一个能理解你的产品而非仅代码库的 AI 开发工具。
- 内置的数据仓库 https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse，让用户可以使用自定义 SQL 分析产品和客户数据。
- PostHog AI https://posthog.com/ai，一个由 AI 驱动的分析师，能回答产品问题，帮助用户找到有用会话记录，并编写自定义 SQL 查询。
我们是：
1. 以产品为导向。超过 45 万个组织已安装 PostHog，主要由口碑传播驱动。我们有非常强的产品市场匹配度。
2. 默认活跃 https://paulgraham.com/aord.html。收入增长非常快，我们效率很高。我们融资是为了推动雄心壮志并加速增长，而不是为了维持运营。
3. 获得大量资金支持。我们从世界顶级投资者那里筹集了超过 1.8 亿美元。我们为长期、雄心勃勃的旅程做好了准备。
我们专注于为终端用户打造出色的产品，招聘优秀的团队成员，快速交付，并尽可能地保持独特 https://posthog.com/deskhog。
我们重视的事情
- 透明：任何人都可以在我们的公开公司手册 https://posthog.com/handbook 中阅读我们的路线图、如何支付（甚至解雇）员工、我们的战略以及我们如何工作。内部我们分享收入、董事会会议的笔记和幻灯片，以及融资计划，让每个人都能获得做出良好决策所需的信息。
- 自主性：我们不会告诉任何人该做什么。每个人根据对客户影响最大的事情，以及他们觉得有趣和有动力去做的事情来选择接下来要做什么。工程师领导产品团队 https://posthog.com/handbook/wide-company 并做出产品决策 https://posthog.com/handbook/which-products。当需要时，团队灵活且易于调整。
- 快速交付：为什么现在不？https://posthog.com/handbook/values#why-not-now 我们希望现在就做
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ABOUT POSTHOG
Product development used to mean manually writing code, running analysis, diagnosing bugs, and rolling out changes using dozens of tools.
PostHog makes products self-driving https://posthog.com/self-driving. It's the only platform that acts like a co-pilot for you (and your AI agents) to do it all – autonomously.
We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort https://posthog.com/handbook/story. We've since shipped more than a dozen products https://posthog.com/products, including:
- PostHog Desktop https://posthog.com/desktop, the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase.
- A built-in data warehouse https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
- PostHog AI https://posthog.com/ai, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.
We are:
1. Product-led. More than 450,000 organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
2. Default alive https://paulgraham.com/aord.html. 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.
3. 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.
We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible https://posthog.com/deskhog.
THINGS WE CARE ABOUT
- 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 https://posthog.com/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.
- Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams https://posthog.com/handbook/wide-company and make product decisions https://posthog.com/handbook/which-products. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
- Shipping fast: Why not now? https://posthog.com/handbook/values#why-not-now We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers https://posthog.com/founders/cracked-manifesto who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
- Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture#were-on-the-makers-schedule, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
- Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.
- Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy https://posthog.com/deskhog with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We're seeking a Europe/UK based ingestion pipeline engineer who:
- Thrives on challenges of building systems that process billions of events per day
- Gets excited about designing elegant and efficient systems that can handle terabytes of data without giving people insomnia
- Understands the importance of data integrity and reliability for customers
The ideal candidate has experience with high-throughput data processing systems such as:
- Analytics platforms
- 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.
WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE UNIQUE
At PostHog you won't get stuck maintaining an obscure microservice or working in the shadows of the product org, instead, you will:
- Own the entire service from end-to-end: No committees or overzealous PMs, the destiny of the ingestion pipeline will be in your hands.
- Build open-source software: You'll be able to show your Rust-fu to your friends and family (and security researchers too).
- Build in the hot path: Your code will decide whether our customers and engineers have a good time or not.
- Start from first principles: No cookie-cutter solutions here, you'll be safe from AI agents for a good while.
- See immediate results: Small, confident, frequent steps forward – that's how we like to move.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
Our team is spread across North America and Europe and we're looking for another engineer in Europe or the UK.
We're growing very quickly at PostHog, so quickly that the numbers in our job descriptions often get out of date. Our ingestion pipeline is currently processing 10s of billions of events a month and we're hoping to add one more zero to that soon. You’ll be responsible for developing the infrastructure to capture all that data, process it reliably, and provide it to other parts of PostHog's platform, such as product analytics, feature flags, CDP, and more.
REQUIREMENTS
- 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
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with customer data platforms or similar data analytics systems
- You've carried a pager and have dealt with incidents
- You're comfortable with provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
- Experience with benchmarking and profiling tools
- Knowledge of observability systems and practices
We are committed to ensuring a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know
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