timgl

PostHog | Full-Time | product engineers and ex technical founder engineers | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1 PostHog helps engineers build better products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... at $14M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital / grew revenue 4x last year

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve

* we're building 20 more products over the next couple of years, so you could end up building one of those

* we need: product engineers and ex technical founders to build products posthog.com/careers

Yep!

PostHog | Full-Time | product engineers and ex technical founder engineers | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1

PostHog helps engineers build better products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... at $12M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital / grew revenue 4x last year

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve

* we're building 20 more products over the next couple of years, so you could end up building one of those

* we need: product engineers and ex technical founders to build products posthog.com/careers

Just to be clear, those are AND not OR conditions.

Definitely not trying to shed responsibility here, we messed up and we'll make sure this doesn't happen again.

PostHog cofounder here. This affected users that did not have a specific version of the JS library pinned and deployed a new version, or were using the snippet, and had network capture enabled, (a feature we introduced very recently and is only enabled on 3% of projects), and had recordings enabled on that particular session (for most customers, only a small percentage of sessions are recorded due to sampling or billing limits)

This outage was definitely disruptive and we shouldn't have let this happen. We will be doing a full post mortem write up, but this affected a small percentage of our users, so the comparison with Crowdstrike isn't fair.

PostHog | Full-Time | product engineers and ex technical founder engineers | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1 PostHog helps engineers build better products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... at $12M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital / grew revenue 4x last year

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve

* we're building 20 more products over the next couple of years, so you could end up building one of those

* we need: product engineers and ex technical founders to build products posthog.com/careers

What was broken? Part of discontinuing the helm chart was putting more effort into supporting the docker compose deployment so we’d love to fix this!

Hi, PostHog co-founder here. We support deletion of individual users and entire projects, so it's inaccurate to say we "don't support any data deletion". We also TTL recordings after 1 month for free users and 3 months for paid users. You're right that we don't have a way of TTL-ing out events data automatically.

We have had some requests [0]for this though it hasn't been requested that often hence we haven't prioritised this. We've recently improved some of our tooling around this so should be easier for us to ship.

[0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/17031

Yep! https://posthog.com/teams/website-docs

PostHog | Full-Time | product engineers and ex technical founder engineers | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1

PostHog helps engineers build better products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... at $10M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital / grew revenue 4x last year

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve

* we're building 20 more products over the next couple of years, so you could end up building one of those

* we need: product engineers and ex technical founders to build products, engineers with clickhouse experience

posthog.com/careers

Spec coming this week, but if you apply to the open role and mention that role I’ll make sure you get put through!

PostHog | Full-Time | product engineers and ex technical founder engineers | Remote (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1 PostHog helps engineers build better products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... nearly at $10M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve

* we're building 20 more products over the next couple of years, so you could end up building one of those

* we need: product engineers and ex technical founders to build products, engineers with clickhouse experience

* we are also hiring: security focused SREs

posthog.com/careers

PostHog | Full-Time | Distributed systems engineer lead, full stack and ex technical founder engineers | Remote (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1 PostHog helps engineers build better products. we launched on HN during a YC batch in 2020 and have been growing very fast ever since.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... nearly at $10M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we are under a ton of pipeline pressure due to how much we've grown usage (~5x per year at the moment) - we need help rewriting our ingestion for the next 2 years of scale whilst dealing with 1 million events/minute being ingested. this will be very hard, but it is the _biggest_ challenge our company faces. revenue and growth are coming easily.

* goal is to build a company worth $10s of billions, by building wide first (we are the all in one platform with lots of tools) then going upmarket way later (similar product and go to market to Atlassian). we grow entirely through word of mouth and content marketing, not from outbound sales.

* we need: a distributed systems engineer to lead our pipeline team. you'll be working alongside experienced people who've worked at places like datadog/meta/twitter in this small team (currently 4 people).

* we are also hiring: ex technical founders and front-end oriented full stack engineers!

posthog.com/careers

PostHog | Full-Time | Distributed systems engineer lead, full stack and ex technical founder engineers | Remote (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1

PostHog helps engineers build better products. we launched on HN during a YC batch in 2020 and have been growing very fast ever since.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... nearly at $10M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we are under a ton of pipeline pressure due to how much we've grown usage (~5x per year at the moment) - we need help rewriting our ingestion for the next 2 years of scale whilst dealing with 1 million events/minute being ingested. this will be very hard, but it is the _biggest_ challenge our company faces. revenue and growth are coming easily.

* goal is to build a company worth $10s of billions, by building wide first (we are the all in one platform with lots of tools) then going upmarket way later (similar product and go to market to Atlassian). we grow entirely through word of mouth and content marketing, not from outbound sales.

* we need: a distributed systems engineer to lead our pipeline team. you'll be working alongside experienced people who've worked at places like datadog/meta/twitter in this small team (currently 4 people).

* we are also hiring: ex technical founders and front-end oriented full stack engineers!

posthog.com/careers

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Full stack engineer, technical ex-founder, tech lead | https://posthog.com

PostHog is the only open-source Product OS, combining product analytics, session recordings, feature flags, cdp and a data warehouse in one.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [0]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://posthog.com/handbook/

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Full stack engineer | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 9.4k stars and a growing and active community. We raised a reasonable Series B last year and still have plenty of runway, so there is lots of upside. We're about 35 people and aim to keep a lean team building an amazing product.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

Biased [0], but we use feature flags a ton. It means that as an engineer we can throw new ideas at the wall, turn them on for ourselves and then a small group of trusted customers and super quickly iterate until we have a feature that works well and that we can safely release to the rest of the world.

We mostly use frontend feature flags for this, so we'd only show the link in the menu or the specific component if the feature flag is turned on.

[0] https://posthog.com/docs/user-guides/feature-flags

Sorry! Had to rename it because of issues with uBlock ironically [0]. New URL is https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/alternatives/

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994768

Ha! I've renamed that page so this should work now!

Yep! See [0] for an overview of the properties we automatically collect

[0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-ios/blob/8734361939c46647...

Relevant thread on open source alternatives to Google Analytics from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888599

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Developer Educator / Customer Success Manager / Senior engineer | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 4k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with lots of runway and are growing quickly. We're 30 people and growing quickly.

We're looking for a Developer Educator, Customer Success Manager and senior engineers.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

1) Essentially yes! You'll have to write SQL queries yourself 2) You'd want to have some way of sending events (simple api) to a Kafka cluster which would be read by Clickhouse, then you'd be able to query the data using metabase or datagrip.

(Or you can use PostHog, which has essentially done all this for you and has all the functionality that Mixpanel/Amplitude has, but you're able to self host it!)

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer / SRE | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 4k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with 10 years of runway and are growing quickly. We're 25+ people and will be 50 by the end of the year.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

We're also looking for an experienced engineering manager.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer / SRE | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 4k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with 10 years of runway and are growing quickly. We're 15+ people and will be 50 by the end of the year. We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

Also looking for an SRE to take care of scaling to 100B+ events, both for our cloud offering and larger customers.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer / SRE | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 3.8k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with 10 years of runway and are growing quickly. We're 15+ people. We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

Also looking for an SRE to take care of scaling huge event volumes, both for our cloud offering and larger customers.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

You're in luck, someone already has [0]

[0] "The Knowledge" by Lewis Dartnell

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer / SRE | https://posthog.com PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 3.6k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with 10 years of runway and are growing quickly. We're 10+ people. We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

Also looking for an SRE to take care of scaling huge event volumes, both for our cloud offering and larger customers.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

We do have a completely FOSS version here: https://github.com/posthog/posthog-foss :). The only difference is support for Clickhouse and some advanced permissioning stuff.

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer / SRE | https://posthog.com PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 3.6k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with 10 years of runway and are growing quickly. We're 10+ people.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

Also looking for an SRE to take care of scaling huge event volumes, both for our cloud offering and larger customers.

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/