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PostHog

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

PostHog is a comprehensive platform that empowers developers to build successful products by providing tools for product analytics, web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, and surveys. It integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, offering data pipelines and warehousing solutions that synchronize with popular platforms like Stripe, Hubspot, Zendesk, and more. With PostHog, teams can safely roll out new features, run experiments with statistical significance, and gather in-depth insights with AI and LLM products. The platform is built with full API access, enabling complete control over customer data. PostHog scales with businesses from startups to growth stages, making it a versatile tool for engineering teams seeking to streamline their data operations while focusing on product development.

📋 Description

• Scale PostHog’s billing system to $100M+ revenue by the end of 2026 and beyond • Build flexible billing primitives supporting new pricing models without major rearchitecture • Make usage reporting and limiting near-realtime • Transform usage and raw invoice data into internal reports, accurate forecasts, and compliant financials • Implement a ledger-based revenue model and rebuild dashboards and investor reports • Make billing the source of truth for pricing, subscriptions, and invoicing • Ship pricing launches and changes, including new pricing models • Collaborate across product, finance, go-to-market, and marketing teams

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering skills • Python, SQL, and complex data modeling proficiency • Experience with data pipelines, task queues, and workflow orchestration • Experience with Celery; familiarity or interest in Temporal and Dagster • Ability to handle edge cases, error handling, rollbacks, and retries • Demonstrated initiative, such as founding a company, leading a major project from scratch, or shipping an impressive side project • Ability to work across product, finance, GTM, and marketing • Usage-based billing systems experience preferred • Interest or experience in revenue modeling, forecasting, and accounting ledgers preferred • Knowledge of Q2C, AR, B2R, GAAP, ASC 606, or NRR is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Natively remote company • Default to async communication • Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days • Heads-down building time prioritized • Fair and accessible interview process, with accommodations or adjustments available