PostHog

PostHog | Remote GMT -8 to +2 | (i) Technical Writer (ii) Senior Developer | Full Time | Salaries all visible at posthog.com/handbook/compensation (location-dependent)

https://posthog.com - see handbook at posthog.com/handbook

Open source, 6x rev growth last year, heading for profitability soon, well paid experienced team of 37 today, 25k customers across free + paid products, 65k developers in community, 0 outbound sales - all inbound growth. Didn't raise a 2021 overpriced round - real (potential!) upside.

* Technical writer *

Looking to hire a developer who loves to write. We aim for each piece we produce to be the best on the internet for that topic.

Content marketing is huge for us - writing deep technical content is what we want! You'd be on our (small) marketing team, making a huge impact.

Previous blogging (especially personal/interesting!) and a few years of development experience needed.

If interested, james at posthog.com and charles at posthog.com for a chat.

* Full stack developer *

We are looking for someone to build the next generation of our analytics backbone. You'll be working on ClickHouse and Python to make sure all our queries are web scale and users are happy.

You will (probably) help us build HogQL https://github.com/PostHog/meta/issues/86 (our own wrapper around ClickHouse SQL), or whatever else you think makes sense to prioritize. We work in small teams of up to 6, and you'll have a lot of trust to pick what to work on.

You need experience…

Please excuse the poor editing and pell-mell thoughts, especially towards the end:

>We are considering creating few internal tools to speed up the work of a few departments in our organization, but before starting development heads on, I would love to gather some wisdom from HN.
First, what tools are you developing?

TL;DR: a machine learning platform that lets you use your own Kubernetes clusters from your cloud provider (GCP, Azure, AWS) and get real-time collaborative notebooks to train, track, package, deploy, and monitor your machine learning models.

>How do you handle user authentication?
TL;DR: manually added at first, and later added invite links and password-reset flows. Still invite based.

>Do you develop one single big application for everything in your organization, or few distinct applications, each with its own specific goal?

TL;DR: plugin system with a core that loads extensions at run-time. Each extension is its own separate repository. We could compose different products.

>Any specific thing to watch out for?

Yes, here we go...

Context: consultancy specialized in building end-to-end products for large enterprise. Around 17 people in 2018 working on about 8 projects simultaneously. CEO (co-founder) in one country and CTO (co-founder) in another country with the team. CTO quits a year and a half after I joined. Pretty much everyone quit after that except literally a handful. A colleague and I took over. We killed projects that were going nowhere,…

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior Backend Engineer, SRE & more! 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 9k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding, default alive, and are growing quickly. We're 30+ people. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

Our mission is to build tools that will increase the number of successful products that exist in the world.

We are looking for Backend Engineers & SREs to take care of scaling to 1 Trillion+ events, both for our cloud offering and larger customers who are self hosting. If you are interested in processing data reliably at scale and love databases like ClickHouse, this is your role!

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) | 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/

They are good at branding/marketing. They have a big team of awesome people (90ppl): https://posthog.com/people

They write a lot of blog posts, which usually tend to go viral on HN.

At the moment they provide a generous free tier too, so many people can get started without paying anything.

They also open-source most of their code: https://github.com/posthog

They raised a lot of money ~$39M

So, I would say that compared to other companies, they got more popular because of:

* modern marketing tactics * huge funding * still in growing phase, so they are focused on growth more than profits (phase in which most companies are at their best, as they try to give more than they take) * newer product * good timing (a lot of people are switching away from GA, which had a huge monopoly over web analytics).

Besides all the already mentioned, solid responses about looking for new opportunities (personal network, consistent daily applications, etc), it's worth noting this one too:

Become a regular contributor to specific open-source projects (esp if it's a growing and/or funded startup).

This approach might work better for those that are already comfortable w/ OSS and don't yet have connections. When applying to that company a bit later, obviously mention all the merged PRs.

For example, here's Posthog [0] showing you what you could help with thru a job post. You can find more companies like this one at Fossfox [1], shameless plug: I maintain that index rn.

[0] https://posthog.com/careers/full-stack-engineer-growth#typical-tasks

[1] https://fossfox.com/