Job description
Help us to increase the number of successful products in the world!
🌍 Location: We are full-remote and globally distributed! Our current team is distributed between GMT-8 and GMT+2 so we currently only hire in these timezones.
🎤 Interview process: 4 stages across 2-3 weeks: 1) 30min interview with Coua (Talent Partner), 2) 60mins interview with Sandy, Team Lead, 3) Culture & Motivation interview with James, cofounder, and 4) PostHog SuperDay (paid day of work). Read more about our interview process.
🖥️ Team: Product Analytics
💼 Manager: Sandy
💰 Compensation: Please check our compensation calculator.
🦔 Read more about how we hire and how we think about Diversity & Inclusion.
About PostHog
We’re equipping every developer to build successful products by giving them a suite of products to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. We currently offer product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, a CDP, SQL access, a data warehouse, and LLM observability… and there’s plenty more to come.
PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinator’s W20 cohort. We had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 100,000 companies have installed the platform. We’ve had huge success with our paid upgrades, raised bags of money from some of the world’s top investors, and have extremely strong product-led growth – 97% driven by word of mouth.
We’re growing quickly, but sustainably. We’re also default alive, averaging 10% monthly revenue growth and with more than $20m ARR. We’re staying focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring a handful of exceptional team members, and seeing fantastic growth as a result.
What we value
We are open source - building a huge community around a free-for-life product is key to PostHog’s strategy.
We aim to become the most transparent company, ever. In order to enable teams to make great decisions, we share as much information as we can. In our public handbook everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, what our strategy is, and who we have raised money from. We also have regular team-wide feedback sessions, where we share honest feedback with each other.
Working autonomously and maximizing impact - we don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what is going to have the biggest impact on our customers.
Solve big problems -we haven’t built our defining feature yet. We are all about acting fast, innovating, and iterating.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll be working full stack at the intersection of people and data. Our mission on the Product Analytics team is to expose powerful tools to help engineers, PMs, and everyone else understand how customers are using their products.
At the core of our product offering is our event tracking system, which allows customers to instrument both their front-ends and back-ends to track any metrics they can imagine. Our product also integrates with our data warehouse, which allows customers to sync data into PostHog from their own databases and third-party sources, unlocking PostHog as the ultimate BI tool.
We’ve built a suite of insights that allow customers to visualize their data in incredibly useful ways without writing any SQL. We’ve also built and maintain our own SQL dialect (known internally and affectionately as HogQL), and are constantly expanding it to make complex queries as easy as possible for our end users.
On the Product Analytics team, you’ll get to be adjacent to our high-scale ingestion pipeline and ClickHouse teams, working together to make whatever user experience you can dream of a reality.
As we grow and continue to ingest more data, we’ll face and solve increasing scale challenges, and will continue to leverage AI to make it as easy as possible for our customers to discover insights in their data. Our goal is to position ourselves as an indispensable tool in our customers’ stacks, not only providing insights, but being a piece of the infrastructure that powers their applications
You’ll write and master Python, TypeScript, (ClickHouse|Postgres|Hog)SQL, Rust, and a little bit of C++.
Requirements
You’ll have full-stack experience with relevant technologies (Python or similar, React or similar, something to do with big data is a bonus)
You have started a project from scratch. You might have led a project, been a founder previously, or built an impressive side project.
You have strong communication skills. We document everything, most of it publicly.
You move fast, have a strong bias for impact and you don’t shy away from stepping on toes.
Nice to have
You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company
Extensive experience with Django and/or TypeScript-based React
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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Benefits
What we offer in return:
💰 Generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog
🌴 Permissionless holiday with a 25-day minimum requirement - the team used 31 days on average in 2022
☕ $300/month towards co-working (or a WeWork membership) and $1,500/quarter for meetups
👵 👴 Pension/401k contributions (4% matching)
🍼 12 weeks’ parental leave after your first year at full pay
📕 Training budget and free books
🧠 Spill mental health chat
🤝 $100/month budget to provide support to open-source projects
💸 We’ll be your first investor and biggest cheerleader, if you spend two years at PostHog and leave to start a new company
Generous severance - 4 months from PostHog after you’ve been with us for 3 months (but you only need to provide 1 month’s notice)
🛫 Regular team off-sites with carbon offsetting for work travel with Project Wren
We believe people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product and our company better. That’s why we dedicated a page in our handbook to diversity and inclusion . No matter your background, we’d love to hear from you!
