Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Company: PostHog
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 11, 2021

Job Description:

Posthog is here to increase the number of successful products that exist in the world. Right now we are focusing on helping product creators understand how people are using their product. Where things go well. Where things don't go so well.

We have built a great service for understanding how users use products. Now we need to scale it and make sure it is rock solid. You will be joining a rapidly growing team helping us support the services that allow us to absorb billions of events without loss even during crazy peaks. You will also be helping out with keeping our query engine up during high loads.

We also need to build out the infrastructure needed to deploy this stack on customer's VPCs and equivalents so that they can maintain control over their data without any loss of quality of experience on Posthog.

Posthog is a well funded Y-Combinator and GV backed startup from the W20 batch and is growing rapidly. We love open source, data, and crafting beautiful products that are easy to use and provide clear value.

If you are interested in software infrastructure on Kubernetes, excited to work with an experienced software development team, this job is for you.

Please note - we are required to add a location to job ads, PostHog is a fully-remote company, but for this role we are looking for candidates between GMT-8 (Pacific time) and GMT+2 (e.g. Eastern European time).

Here Is What You Will Be Working On

• Building AWS, GCP, Azure (and more!) deployment automation for delivering Posthog to ourselves and customers
• Troubleshooting networking, compute, and Kubernetes failures.
• Improving performance and robustness of cloud and customer deployments.
• Hardening security all around.
• Working on large scale OLAP databases with huge datasets (we use Clickhouse and love it)
• Automate scaling Clickhouse for ourselves and our clients
• Improving how we manage and scale Kafka
  
  Requirements
  
  What you'll bring
  
  • Strong experience in Linux systems administration, networks, performance troubleshooting
  • Running and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters, containerized networking and applications
  • Intermediate knowledge of Golang, Rust, or Python
  • You must be able to code
  • Infrastructure and application security engineering experience is a plus.
  • Cloud infrastructure automation using Kubernetes
  • Clickhouse experience is a plus
    
    What To Expect Once You Apply
    
    • You will join a 30 minute intro call to walk you through culture, compensation, the interview process, and requirements.
    • We will send you a 30 minute SRE quiz
    • Technical interview with the hiring team. This is usually 2 PostHog team members spending 45-60 minutes in conversation
    • The final stage is a mix of panel interviews (coding skills and infrastructure), as well as meeting the team
      
      Benefits
      
      What we offer in return
      
      • Generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog
      • Unlimited time off with a 25 day minimum
      • Private health insurance including dental and vision
      • 401k contributions
      • Generous parental leave
      • Training budget and free books
      • $200/month budget towards co-working or caf-- working
      • Spill mental health chat
      • Regular in-person get-togethers with the team (once Covid allows us to travel)
      • Carbon offsetting for work travel with Project Wren
        Please note that benefits vary slightly by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask our team.
        
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        • Why you're drawn to us
        • Your resum-- and/or LinkedIn
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          • How we hire
          • We ask for your best work, and in return pay generously and have exceptional benefits
          • Learn about the team you'd be working with
          • Getting hiring right is key to diversity. Learn about how we think about this.
            We believe people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product and our company better. No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

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