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title: 'Backend Engineer - Ingestion (Europe/UK timezone) at Posthog'
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# Backend Engineer - Ingestion (Europe/UK timezone) at Posthog

- **Company:** Posthog
- **Location:** EMEA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/posthog/3f190a45-7810-47f9-b77d-169b806ea266/application

**Skills:** Node.js, Go, Rust, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Distributed Systems, Event-driven Architecture, High-throughput Processing

> Design and build high-throughput ingestion pipelines processing billions of events daily. The role involves developing scalable, event-driven distributed systems using Node.js, Rust, or Go to feed critical product analytics and customer data components.

## Job description

## 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:

- Product-led. More than 450,000 organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
- [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.
- 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

## #LI-DNI

## About Posthog

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform that provides a suite of tools for product engineers to build, analyze, and improve their products.
- **Entity Type**: Private (revenue over $50M, default-alive, venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Fully remote (team distributed across 20+ countries, no central office)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Product analytics, developer tools, data infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprises, SMBs, and startups – especially product engineers and data teams
- **Mission**: "Help product engineers build successful products" [[posthog.com/about]](https://posthog.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Product Analytics**: Core analytics tool for tracking user events, funnels, retention, and insights. SaaS with self-hosted option.
- **Session Replay**: Record and replay user sessions to understand behavior.
- **Feature Flags**: Gradually roll out features and experiment with A/B testing.
- **Data Warehouse & CDP-lite**: Managed warehouse with 120+ integrations, SQL editor, BI, and a customer data platform layer.
- **A/B Testing**: Native experimentation tool integrated with feature flags.
- **API & Webhooks**: Programmatic access and event streaming.
- **Error Tracking & App Monitoring**: (Product OS suite) – observability and exception tracking.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue > $50M (stated on careers page) [[posthog.com/careers]](https://posthog.com/careers)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (used by 65% of each batch); investors and partners are not detailed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: 190,254+ customers; 98% use the free tier; company has grown to 200+ team members; highly transparent (public handbook, roadmap, and salary calculator).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source core**: Codebase publicly auditable, fostering trust and community contributions.
- **Extreme transparency**: Public salary calculator, company handbook, roadmap, and even investor communications.
- **Usage-based pricing**: Generous free tier (1M events/mo), matches cheapest major competitor, no sales calls required.
- **Wide product suite**: Single platform replaces multiple tools (analytics, session replay, feature flags, data warehouse, etc.).
- **Remote-first culture**: 100% remote, global team, asynchronous communication, and no micromanagement.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Continuing to expand the "Product OS" suite to cover every tool a product engineer needs; maintaining razor-thin pricing to drive scale; fostering an autonomous small-team structure to ship fast.
- **Growth direction**: Deepening integrations and data connectivity, moving upmarket with enterprise features while preserving self-serve, and expanding AI/observability products.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote with no geo-restrictions; $300/mo co-working budget and $1,500/quarter travel budget for team meetups.
- **Culture**: "We're weirdos, low egos, and biased for action." Two meeting-free days per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays).
- **Benefits**: Unlimited PTO (minimum 25 days/year), generous parental leave, yearly company off-sites and hackathons, $1,000 paid SuperDay for candidates.
- **Equity**: 10-year exercise window, double-trigger acceleration, employee secondaries (first tender offer in 2025).
- **Transparent pay**: Salary and equity ranges publicly listed (e.g., Product Engineer: $270,750 – $296,400 + significant equity). Full calculator available before applying.
- **Autonomy**: Organized into small, autonomous teams (like "startups within a startup") with direct reporting to execs and minimal hierarchy.

## Sources
1. [posthog.com/about](https://posthog.com/about) – Company overview and mission
2. [posthog.com/](https://posthog.com/) – Homepage with product details and pricing
3. [posthog.com/careers](https://posthog.com/careers) – Revenue, team size, compensation, and interview process
4. [posthog.com/handbook/company/culture](https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture) – Remote culture, transparency, and values
5. [posthog.com/handbook/wide-company](https://posthog.com/handbook/wide-company) – Small team structure and autonomy

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