Job description
About PostHog
We equip every developer to build successful products.
We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator’s W20 cohort.
We’ve since shipped more than a dozen products, including a built-in data warehouse, a customer data platform, and Max AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.
Next on the roadmap are messaging, customer analytics, ai task creation and coding based on customer data, logs and support analytics.
Our values are not a poster on the wall full of aspiration. They’ve come from how we really work, day in day out.
PostHog is open source product led, and a default alive company that is well funded.
What you’ll be doing
As a Product Engineer on the Platform Features team, you will build and own the foundational systems that power PostHog, from authentication and access control to activity logs and approval flows. This means talking to users (both internal teams and customers), understanding our strategy for scale and enterprise needs, and deciding what you and the team should build next to make PostHog more secure, reliable, and scalable.
You will be in the unique position to ship foundational features like expanding SAML support, integrating new identity providers, and even building our own in-house IAM system, starting with internal tooling and eventually rolling them out to customers. You’ll test MVPs in production, iterate on real feedback, and ensure these systems are so solid that other teams can build on top of them without a second thought.
And yes, you will support our customers as a Support Hero to ensure a great experience.
Product engineers at PostHog are truly full stack. You’ll design and ship the UX for critical workflows (because even auth flows need to be intuitive), write Python for our core services, and own the infrastructure that keeps everything running.
You now know what you’ll be doing, but what about what you’ll need to bring along?
You’ll fit right in if:
You’re a builder. PostHog is full of people who just love building stuff, people who would still be building software even if there wasn’t a paycheck at the end. We’re talking about taking projects from 0 to 1, e.g. You’re a former founder, lead, or maybe you’ve built an impressive side project!
You bring full stack-experience with relevant technologies. This is our stack, but we hire lots of people whose main experience is with a different stack.
You think like a product engineer! You care more about building the best product for the users and helping your team ship than focussing on abstract goals. In short, we’d rather ship than sink, and part of that journey is documenting what you do.
You love getting things done. Product engineers at PostHog have an incredible amount of autonomy to decide what to work on, so you’ll need to be proactive and just git it done.
You’re ready to do the best work of your career. We have incredible distribution, a big financial cushion and an amazing team. There’s probably no better place to see how far you can go.
If this sounds like you, we should talk.
We are committed to ensuring a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know.
What’s in it for you?
Now that we’ve told you what you’ll be building with us, let’s talk about what we’ll be building for you.
If you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you - we’re happy to accommodate!
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