Product Engineer
PostHog
Job Summary
The Workflows team owns multiple core products at PostHog: the Customer Data Platform (CDP), Messaging, and our upcoming Workflows product. As a Product Engineer, you will build and own products and features from beginning to end, including talking to users, understanding strategy, and defining what to build next. You will test MVPs in production, iterate on feedback, own pricing, and ensure ongoing success. This role involves full-stack development across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data, architecting scalable, stateful systems for automation, orchestration, and messaging.
Must Have
- You’re a builder.
- You bring full stack-experience with relevant technologies including experience with scalable, stateful systems.
- You understand scale: You know how to design, build, and operate distributed systems, manage state, and ship robust backend infrastructure at scale.
- You think like a product engineer!
- You love getting things done.
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
Job Description
Workflows Team
- #### Location
Remote (US)
- #### Timezone(s)
GMT +2 to GMT -8
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
, and Max 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
The Workflows team owns multiple core products at PostHog: the Customer Data Platform (CDP), Messaging, and our upcoming Workflows product.
The Workflows engine is what powers most of CDP + Messaging today, and we plan to build it out into a foundational service that powers automation and orchestration across CDP, Messaging, and other PostHog teams - eventually becoming a standalone product. Think flexible, scalable automation and workflow pipelines for developers and product teams.
As a Product Engineer on the Workflows team you will build and own products
& features from beginning to end.
This means talking to users, understanding our strategy and goals, and figuring out what you (and the team) should be building next.
You will be in the unique position to test MVP’s in production with real users, iterate on their feedback, own the pricing, and ensure the ongoing success of your work.
And yes, you will support our customers as a Support Hero
to ensure a great experience.
are truly full stack. You’ll design and ship full stack features which means frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data. You’ll architect scalable, stateful systems for automation, orchestration, and messaging.
And you’ll build the underlying engine that powers workflow automation across PostHog's products and customers.
You now know what you’ll be doing, but what about what you’ll need to bring along?
You’ll fit right in if:
- You’re a builder. PostHog is full of people who just love building stuff
, people who would still be building software even if there wasn’t a paycheck at the end. We’re talking about taking projects from 0 to 1, e.g. You’re a former founder, lead, or maybe you’ve built an impressive side project!
- You bring full stack-experience with relevant technologies including experience with scalable, stateful systems. This is our stack
, but we hire lots of people whose main experience is with a different stack.
- You understand scale: You know how to design, build, and operate distributed systems, manage state, and ship robust backend infrastructure at scale.
- You think like a product engineer! You care more about building the best product
for the users and helping your team ship than focussing on abstract goals. In short, we'd rather ship than sink, and part of that journey is documenting what you do
.
- You love getting things done. Product 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.
Meet the Workflows Team
Configure event delivery, marketing campaigns, and automated workflows all within PostHog
Team members
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75% say NO!
Salary
We have a set system for compensation as part of being transparent. Salary varies based on location and level of experience.
Location
(based on market rates)
Country
Region
Level
Step
Salary calculator
1. Benchmark (United States - San Francisco, California) $243,000
2. Level modifier 1
3. Step modifier 0.95 - 1.04
Salary $230,850 - $252,720+ 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
Q4 2025 Objectives
- Grow native Messaging: Drive adoption to match or exceed all other workflow destinations combined.
- Workflows as a platform: Evolve the Workflows product's workflows engine into a customer-facing data pipeline and automation tool.
- Destination ergonomics: Improve the user experience, onboarding, and support process for destinations.
- AI-powered workflows: Let MaxAI build workflows from natural language prompts and execute automated tasks within them.
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 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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