DevEx Engineer

PostHog is building an operating system for software companies, offering products like open-source product analytics, a data warehouse, a customer data platform, and PostHog AI. They are product-led, default alive, and well-funded, focusing on shipping fast, transparency, autonomy, and ambition. This DevEx Engineer role aims to enhance developer productivity for PostHog's 100+ engineers by streamlining local development, CI/CD, and AI tools, and upgrading dependencies.

Must Have

• Experience working on DevEx, or a real desire to do so
• Experience with Python (ideally Django)
• Experience with TypeScript

Perks & Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation & equity
• Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
• Two meeting-free days per week
• Home office
• Coworking credit
• Private health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Training budget
• Access to our Hedge House
• Carbon offsetting
• Pension & 401k contributions
• We hire and pay locally
• Company offsites

Developer Experience Team

Timezone(s)

GMT +2 to GMT -8

About

We're shipping every product that companies need to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.

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, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
• A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.
• 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 CRM, messaging, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!

We are:

1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed , mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

2. Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, 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 $100m 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.

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. 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 and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
• Shipping fast: 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 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, 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 with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

Why we're hiring

has 100+ engineers. You can help those engineers ship 2x faster by making the development experience a joy.

Who we're looking for

An engineer excited to work on pushing what Django/Python/Typescript can do, and how far we can push engineering productivity by streamlining local development, CI/CD and AI tools.

What you'll be doing

• Talk to your users (other engineers at ) to figure out what's slowing them down
• Upgrade important dependencies (like moving to Django 5, latest Python version)
• Measure and do anything and everything to reduce time from idea -> deployed PR
• Improve our frontend build performance by integrating TypeScript-Go
• Build better tooling around our snapshot and visual regression tests
• Keep our frontend dependencies up to date and secure

Public examples of work you might be doing:

• Hogli, a unified CLI for developer workflows
• Django migration safety checks and guide
• Upgrade Django to 5.2

Requirements

• Either experience working on Devex, or a real desire to do so
• Experience with Python (ideally Django) and TypeScript

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!

Meet the Developer Experience Team

Developer Experience

Making it easy for engineers to ship great code without fighting their tools.

Team members

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Salary

We have a set system for compensation as part of being transparent. Salary varies based on location and level of experience.

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Location

(based on market rates)

Country

Region

Level

Step

Salary calculator

1. Benchmark (United States - Alaska) $209,600

2. Level modifier 1

3. Step modifier 0.95 - 1.04

Salary $199,120 - $217,984+ significant equity

We are open to paying well beyond these ranges for exceptional talent. If this is you, please apply.

Benefits

• !Generous, transparent compensation & equityGenerous, transparent compensation & equity
• !Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
• !Two meeting-free days per weekTwo meeting-free days per week
• !Home officeHome office
• !Coworking creditCoworking credit
• !Private health, dental, and vision insurance.Private health, dental, and vision insurance.
• !Training budgetTraining budget
• !Access to our Hedge HouseAccess to our Hedge House
• !Carbon offsettingCarbon offsetting
• !Pension & 401k contributionsPension & 401k contributions
• !We hire and pay locallyWe hire and pay locally
• !Company offsitesCompany offsites

Get more details about all our benefits on the Careers page.

Your team's mission and objectives

Q1 2026 Objectives

• Enable the creation of modern, fully isolated products with CI tests completing in approximately 5 minutes
• Establish Bazel and a scalable, well-defined product structure
• Clarify and standardize type usage, including clear boundaries and expectations for product isolation
• Evolve DevEx engineering best practices, particularly around product setup, isolation, and maintainability and brief all engineers regularly
• Continuously improve CI/CD reliability and quality
• Identify, track, and reduce flaky tests
• Implement alerting for red master to ensure fast feedback and recovery
• Define and track a small set of meaningful CI metrics
• Strengthen and speed up type checking across the codebase (e.g. using `ty`) to improve correctness and developer confidence
• Allocate dedicated time for exploration and experimentation to inform future technical direction

Interview process

We do 2-3 short interviews, then pay you to do some real-life (or close to real-life) work.

• 1

##### Application (You are here)

Our talent team will review your application

We're looking to see how your skills and experience align with our needs.

• 2

##### Culture interview

30-min video call

Our goal is to explore your motivations to join our team, learn why you’d be a great fit, and answer questions about us.

• 3

##### Technical interview

45 minutes, varies by role

You'll meet the hiring team who will evaluate skills needed to be successful in your role. No live coding.

• 4

##### Founder interview

30 minutes

You have reached the final boss. It's time to chat with James or Tim.

• 5

##### SuperDay

Paid day of work

You’ll meet a few more members of the team and work on an independent project. It's challenging, but most people say it's fun, and we'll pay you $1,000 for your efforts!

• 6

##### Offer

Pop the champagne (after you sign)

If everyone is happy, we’ll make you an offer to join us - YAY!

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