Remote (Global)

PostHog is hiring a Backend Engineer - Feature Flags

About the Role

The role involves building and scaling backend infrastructure for feature flag management, improving system reliability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate controls into production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend services for feature flag systems
  • Ensure high availability and low-latency performance of flag evaluation
  • Collaborate with frontend and product teams on integration needs
  • Optimize data storage and retrieval for flag configurations
  • Monitor system health and respond to incidents
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical planning
  • Improve observability and debugging capabilities
  • Support secure handling of access controls and permissions
  • Maintain documentation for internal and external use
  • Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing
  • Troubleshoot production issues across multiple environments
  • Help define best practices for feature lifecycle management
  • Work with data teams to enable analytics on flag usage
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy standards

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits

Work Arrangement

Remote-friendly with flexible hours

Team

Part of a distributed engineering team focused on product development

Why This Role Matters

Feature flags are central to how products are shipped and tested. This role directly impacts the speed and safety of software delivery across organizations.

What You’ll Build

You’ll develop core infrastructure that enables teams to roll out changes gradually, run experiments, and control behavior in real time without deploys.

Engineering Culture

We value transparency, ownership, and practical problem solving. Engineers are trusted to make decisions and ship meaningful work independently.

Onboarding & Growth

New hires receive structured onboarding and regular feedback. Career progression is supported through mentorship and defined growth paths.

Open Source Contribution

We actively contribute to and maintain open-source projects. Engineers are encouraged to publish tools and share learnings publicly.

Available for qualified candidates

Required Skills
RustPythonDjangoDistributed SystemsAPI DesignPerformance OptimizationCommunicationProblem Solving
About company
PostHog
We equip every developer to build successful products. We started with open-source product analytics and have since shipped more than a dozen products, including a built-in data warehouse, a customer data platform, and PostHog AI.
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Category backend
Posted 7 months ago