Product Engineer

Summary

PostHog is a product-led platform that builds self-driving tools for product development, analytics, data warehousing, and AI-powered product workflows. The Product Engineer will own products and features end to end, collaborate with design, talk to users, provide support, and write documentation while building full-stack and AI-native experiences.

Responsibilities

• Owning products and features from beginning to end. This means originating ideas based on your intuition, talking to users, and understanding our strategy and goals. It means testing MVPs in production with real users. It means iterating on their feedback, owning pricing, and ensuring the ongoing success of your work
• Collaborating with design (when necessary). Product engineers at PostHog are full stack, so we expect you to ship and own the basic UX of your work using our design system. From there, it's up to you to decide when to collaborate with our design team to iterate and polish the experience
• Talking to users. Good product engineers read feedback from users and iterate quickly. Great product engineers have users they're friendly with, talk with them frequently, bounce ideas off them, and iterate with them when they ship new things
• Doing support. Every week, one person in each engineering team is designated the Support hero. Their job is to investigate and resolve issues reported by customers for their product. Giving users support from real engineers, and shipping fixes and improvements in real-time, is one of the best ways to spark joy in users. This role will also include some on-call time, too
• Writing docs. We have a content team that will collaborate with you on reviewing, polishing, and improving your documentation, but the best person to document a new feature is the person who built it

Skills

• You've built things agents actually use. More and more of what we ship is used by agents, not people, and building for them is genuinely different. We want someone who's done it and has the scars: an API an agent can drive, an MCP server, evals, docs written for a machine. Side projects count
• Full-stack experience with [relevant technologies](https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/stack) – e.g. Python or similar, React or similar, something to do with big data is a bonus
• Experience taking a project from 0 to 1. You might have led a project, been a founder previously, or built an impressive side project
• Strong writing skills. [We document everything](https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture#we-write-everything-down), most of it publicly. The ability to communicate your ideas and make persuasive arguments is essential
• Have worked at a high-growth SaaS company before
• Extensive knowledge of Django and/or TypeScript-based React
• Experience building AI-native products, or integrating AI into existing software

Qualifications

Must Haves

• You've built things agents actually use. More and more of what we ship is used by agents, not people, and building for them is genuinely different. We want someone who's done it and has the scars: an API an agent can drive, an MCP server, evals, docs written for a machine. Side projects count
• Full-stack experience with [relevant technologies](https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/stack) – e.g. Python or similar, React or similar, something to do with big data is a bonus
• Experience taking a project from 0 to 1. You might have led a project, been a founder previously, or built an impressive side project
• Strong writing skills. [We document everything](https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture#we-write-everything-down), most of it publicly. The ability to communicate your ideas and make persuasive arguments is essential

Nice to Haves

• Have worked at a high-growth SaaS company before
• Extensive knowledge of Django and/or TypeScript-based React
• Experience building AI-native products, or integrating AI into existing software

Benefits

• Natively remote company with default async communication
• Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days