Backend Engineer (Europe/UK timezone)

PostHog
United Kingdom, EU
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration"]

We are seeking a Europe/UK–based ingestion pipeline engineer to design and own scalable, multi-tenant data ingestion systems that process billions of events per day. You’ll build end-to-end ingestion services, work with Node.js/Go/Rust, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Redis, and ship changes quickly while maintaining data integrity across analytics platforms and CDP components.

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3 months ago

Backend Engineer (Europe/UK timezone)

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Job Summary

We are seeking a Europe/UK–based ingestion pipeline engineer to design and own scalable, multi-tenant data ingestion systems that process billions of events per day. You’ll build end-to-end ingestion services, work with Node.js/Go/Rust, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Redis, and ship changes quickly while maintaining data integrity across analytics platforms and CDP components.
Location: United Kingdom, EU
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the ingestion service end-to-end, from design to deployment and maintenance
  • •Develop infrastructure to capture, process, and provide data to other PostHog platform components
  • •Collaborate to ensure data integrity and reliability across analytics and CDP
  • •Scale multi-tenant SaaS ingestion pipelines to handle billions of events per month
  • •Ship changes quickly with minimal disruption to existing systems

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with highly scalable, event-driven distributed systems
  • •Developed multi-tenant software-as-a-service products
  • •Experience with Node.JS, Go, Rust, or similar languages
  • •Worked with Kafka and PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar systems at scale
  • •Know how to ship changes quickly without breaking things
Experience:SaaSAnalyticsOpen source
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaboration
Tech Stack:Node.JSGoRustKafkaPostgreSQLRedisS3Clickhouse

Company Brief

PostHog
PostHog provides an open-source product analytics and developer platform that combines analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, and data warehousing to help engineering and product teams build and optimize products.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2020
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