Platform Engineer

PostHog is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their Infrastructure team. This role involves building an internal developer platform from scratch, focusing on Kubernetes-based deployment automation, CI/CD pipeline design, observability tooling, and developer self-service abstractions. The goal is to enable product teams to deploy and manage high-scale applications with minimal friction, standardizing infrastructure and ensuring consistency across applications. The ideal candidate is a builder with strong Kubernetes experience, proficient in Python, Terraform, and cloud technologies, and passionate about empowering other developers.

Must Have

• Strong skills in building self-service developer platforms at a product company
• Experience with Kubernetes at scale
• Experience with designing standardized patterns for CI/CD, Observability, GitOps, Autoscaling, Load balancing
• Ability to write code in Python beyond scripting
• Love diving into Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud, and Infra/SRE realm
• Care about enabling product teams to deploy fast, easy, and safe
• Proactive and able to work autonomously

Perks & Benefits

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

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 PostHog 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

You'll be part of our first two Platform Engineers within the Infrastructure team 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, 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.

Salary

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

Learn more about compensation

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 & 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

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

Your team's mission and objectives

Make deploying, scaling, and managing PostHog easy, fast, and reliable.

🪵 LogHog

> Ship that v1!

↔ Managed reverse proxy for everyone

> Try this with istio gateway or another alternative

🔒DevEx friendly Secrets Management

> Iterate on the current secrets management and make it a DevEx-centered self-service which is not needing us to operate.

💽 Help team ingestion make persons split happening

> To meet performance and scaling demands, we need to split out some services from using the main DB. We lead this effort as this is cross-team! Also make sure that we can run db migrations for several clusters safely and reliably

📄 Make bigger chart adjustments less risky

> We're currently replacing helm charts in place on all envs, we need a better approach so we can test this safely per environment without hefty workarounds

🧹 Clean AWS Account and kubernetes bootstrapping

> Spinning up new EKS clusters should be easy and fast, so that we can move towards immutable infrastructure - clickhouse-* accounts as an example

Security

See security goals

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. ##### PostHog SuperDay

Paid day of work

You’ll meet a few more members of the team and work on an 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!