Product Engineer

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
. 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
. We've since shipped
more than a dozen products
, including:
PostHog Desktop
, the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase.
A built-in data warehouse
, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
PostHog 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
. 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
.
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.
Who we're looking for
We're hiring for a range of roles here. What you end up working on will depend on your exact skillset and preferences, so choose your own adventure.
In general we seek Product Engineers who are:
Enthusiastic drivers.
We need proactive people that can fully own projects and get them done, and know to get help when needed. This is what being a
product engineer
is all about. "Are we there yet?" is the wrong question.
Optimistic problem solvers.
Things get hard here sometimes – whether it's scaling, shipping complex products, handling a stream of support requests, or trying to ship something that touches multiple teams. We need people who won't get disheartened, and will collaborate, iterate, and ship their way out of anything.
Grown ups.
We’re an international bunch of weirdos, but one thing unites us: everyone is kind, considerate, and professional towards each other.
This isn't about age or experience
, it's about being low-ego, flexible, and respectful.
Genuine builders.
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. If this sounds like you, we should talk.
What you'll be doing
Owning products and features from beginning to end.
This means originating ideas based on your intuition, talking to users, and understanding our strategy and goals. It means testing MVPs in production with real users. It means
iterating on their feedback
, owning pricing, and ensuring the ongoing success of your work.
Collaborating with design (when necessary).
Product engineers at PostHog are full stack, so we expect you to ship and own the basic UX of your work using
our design system
.
From there, it's up to you to decide when to
collaborate with our design team
to iterate and polish the experience.
Talking to users.
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