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PostHog · 1 day ago

Software Engineer — AI-Enabled Product Autonomy

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level

PostHog is a company focused on building essential products for businesses from their inception to IPO. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Twig team to develop an AI-enabled product development loop aimed at achieving product autonomy, involving the orchestration of AI agents and optimizing coding environments.

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Responsibilities

You'll join the Twig team, which is building an AI-enabled product development loop to achieve "product autonomy"
We're creating a desktop app alternative to IDEs, designed as an agentic development environment
This means orchestrating multiple AI agents (not just stateless coding assistants) and enriching them with PostHog product data
You'll scale the language model gateway to handle 10K–100K requests/second, ensuring low latency and high reliability
You'll build and optimize coding sandboxes for AI agents, enabling safe, isolated execution of generated code
You'll contribute to the AI-first product development loop, from analysis to auto-merge, with a focus on robustness and scalability

Qualification

PythonTypeScriptAI-enabled autonomyScaling experienceEngineering-led decision-makingProblem-solvingCollaboration

Required

Professional experience with Python and TypeScript
Open to other programming languages
Experience in scale-up environments
Understanding of the challenges of scaling from unicorn to decacorn growth
Ability to solve hard problems, such as optimizing gateway performance or designing sandboxing systems
Belief in engineering-led decision-making
Desire to work where engineering and product teams function as one unified unit
Excitement about AI-enabled autonomy and building infrastructure for AI analysis, coding, and review

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.
dateFounded in 2020
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://posthog.com

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
co-ceo
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