Platform Engineer

ABOUT POSTHOG

We equip every developer to build successful products https://posthog.com/handbook/why-does-posthog-exist.

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 a built-in data warehouse https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse, a customer data platform https://posthog.com/docs/cdp, and PostHog AI http://posthog.com/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 https://posthog.com/handbook/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, https://posthog.com/docs/self-host product led, and a default alive https://paulgraham.com/aord.html company that is well funded.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

You'll be part of our first two Platform Engineers within the Infrastructure team https://posthog.com/teams/infrastructure and build an internal developer platform from scratch that enables product teams to deploy and manage high-scale applications with minimal friction.

The focus is on creating a highly opinionated, self-service platform with strong abstractions that hide complexity. Think deploying apps without letting devs wrestle with hundreds of lines of YAML!

You'll establish standardized patterns for everything from CI/CD pipelines and observability to secrets management and autoscaling, giving developers a unified interface to work with. Especially at PostHog where we ship at incredible speed, this work is crucial (and if done well, you will have a fanbase).

Working closely with our SRE and Infrastructure teams https://posthog.com/blog/why-infra-is-our-competitive-advantage, you'll make technical decisions about the stack, implement guardrails and best practices by default, and ensure consistency across all applications, so teams can ship faster without worrying about infrastructure and security details.

Some core areas you’ll focus on:

- Kubernetes-based deployment automation

- CI/CD pipeline design

- Observability tooling

- Developer self-service abstractions

- Infrastructure standardization and optimization

The goal: build a platform that's easy and fun to use, scales like hell. We’re at 10s of billions of events and this is just the beginning!
This platform will empower developers to focus on building products while the platform handles the operational complexity.

YOU’LL FIT RIGHT IN IF:

- You’re a builder. You bring strong skills in building self service developer platforms at a product company

- Kubernetes has no secrets for you. You have worked with Kubernetes at scale and know how to get the maximum out of Kubernetes without going to complex.

- You have experience with Designing standardized patterns: CI/CD, Observability, GitOps, Autoscaling, Load balancing.. You dealt with it.

- You’re a developer that loves infra: You can write code in Python beyond scripting, but also love diving into Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud, and everything else that comes with the Infra/SRE realm.

- You care about enabling others. You have experience with helping product teams to deploy fast, easy, and safe. Our product teams are your customers

- You love getting things done. 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.