About the company
PostHog is a product analytics platform that started with open-source product analytics and has since shipped more than a dozen products, including PostHog Desktop, a built-in data warehouse, and PostHog AI. We are product-led, default alive, and well-funded, with more than 450,000 organizations using our product.
Responsibilities
- Operating EKS clusters across several environments with Karpenter autoscaling, Cilium networking, and ArgoCD-driven GitOps deployments
- Managing and evolving a multi AWS account organization, provisioning, networking, access control, and cross-account connectivity
- Maintaining the Terraform/Terragrunt IaC platform - modules, automated plan-on-PR / apply-on-merge pipelines, and safe patterns for shared infrastructure
- Improving operational tooling around deploys, schema changes, backups, restores, and incident response
- Reducing operational load by identifying repeat pain points and eliminating them through code and self-healing automation
- Optimizing cloud spend as you go
- Participating in on-call and incident response, with a strong focus on making incidents rarer
Requirements
- Deep ownership of production systems
- Not afraid of working with stateful infrastructure
- Love working in AWS, VMs, automation, and making messy systems reliable
- Enthusiastic drivers: proactive, can fully own projects and get them done
- Optimistic problem solvers: collaborate, iterate, and ship their way out of anything
- Grown ups: low-ego, flexible, and respectful
- Genuine builders: love building stuff
Conditions
- Remote (US - Central/Eastern timezone)
- Transparency: public company handbook, shared revenue, notes, and slides from board meetings
- Autonomy: choose what to work on next based on impact and interest
- Shipping fast: small autonomous teams, engineers lead product teams
- Time for building: async communication, meeting-free days on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Ambition: solve big problems
- Being weird: competitive advantage