Software Engineer — Data Stack — Pipelines jobs in United States
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PostHog · 3 months ago

Software Engineer — Data Stack — Pipelines

PostHog is a company that empowers developers to create successful products through innovative analytics solutions. The Software Engineer - Pipelines will focus on building and iterating on the data import system, maintaining the source library, and ensuring the stability and production readiness of the Data Stack team’s solutions.

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Responsibilities

Build and iterate on our data import system
Build and maintain our source library
Revamp our schema management strategy
Build resilient systems (e.g logging, observability, testing)
Debug stateful data workflows by digging into k8s pod metrics
Schedule jobs using Temporal.io

Qualification

PythonKubernetesDockerS3Batch processingApache ArrowData pipelinesAsync-pythonTemporal.ioIcebergDeltaDebuggingBackend skillsProactive

Required

Strong skills in building resilient systems
Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and S3 at scale
Experience in Python
Hands-on experience with batch processing and modern data formats
Experience with Arrow to stream data
Experience with Iceberg and/or Delta is welcome
Experience with building tools versus using off-the-shelf tools
Experience with creating and maintaining data pipelines
Comfortable with debugging stateful, async data workflows by digging into k8s pod metrics
Strong backend skills
Proactive and able to get things done

Preferred

Async-python and Temporal.io skills are welcome
Experience with Iceberg and/or Delta is welcome

Company

PostHog

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PostHog is an open source platform that helps build successful products by providing tools to evaluate feature impact and customer value.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$182.15M
Key Investors
Peak XV PartnersStripeY Combinator Continuity Fund
2025-09-29Series E· $75M
2025-06-09Series D· $70M
2024-01-01Series C· $10M

Leadership Team

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James Hawkins
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