Remote Backend Engineer

Description:

• We are looking for a backend engineer to help scale our billing system.
• You will be part of the Billing team, responsible for the infrastructure that allows our products to generate revenue.
• Your focus will be on the complex backend systems and data pipelines that ensure our billing operates smoothly.
• You will work on scaling our billing system backend to handle over $100 million in revenue.
• You will optimize complex batch processing jobs and workflow orchestration for usage reporting and quota limiting.
• You will build and maintain data transformation pipelines that convert raw invoice data into internal reports, investor reports, and GAAP compliant financials.
• You will drive architectural decisions for scaling our billing infrastructure.
• You will improve data accuracy and performance across our billing systems.
• You will support the implementation of new billing schemes for products we are launching.

Requirements:

• You must have extensive backend engineering experience.
• You should be very familiar with Python and SQL.
• You need to have experience with workflow orchestration and task processing tools.
• You should enjoy thinking through and around numerous edge cases.
• You must love simplifying complexity and be willing to refactor to clean things up.
• You should enjoy working on performance optimizations and scaling challenges.
• You need to have started a project from scratch, which could include leading a project, being a founder, or building an impressive side project.

Benefits:

• We offer generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog.
• You will have permissionless holiday with a minimum requirement of 25 days; the team used an average of 31 days in 2022.
• We provide $300 per month towards co-working (or a WeWork membership) and $1,500 per quarter for meetups.
• You will receive pension/401k contributions with 4% matching.
• We offer 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after your first year.
• You will have access to a training budget and free books.
• We provide Spill mental health chat support.
• You will have a $100 per month budget to support open-source projects.
• If you spend two years at PostHog and leave to start a new company, we will be your first investor and biggest cheerleader.
• We offer generous severance of 4 months after you’ve been with us for 3 months, with only 1 month's notice required.
• Regular team off-sites are organized with carbon offsetting for work travel.