Site Reliability Engineer (US - Central/Eastern Timezone)

About this role

PostHog seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own and stabilize production systems, focusing on stateful infrastructure, AWS automation, and reliability across their rapidly growing product analytics platform. You'll work autonomously in a remote, async-first environment where engineers have deep ownership and influence over system architecture and operational excellence.

What you'll do

• Design, deploy, and maintain reliable stateful infrastructure on AWS
• Build automation and tooling to improve system reliability and reduce manual toil
• Proactively identify and resolve production issues before they impact customers
• Collaborate with product teams to ensure scalability and performance of core systems
• Document operational procedures and create runbooks for common scenarios
• Drive infrastructure improvements and advocate for reliability best practices

What they're looking for

• AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, RDS, networking, etc.)
• Infrastructure-as-code and automation tools
• Linux system administration and troubleshooting
• Monitoring, observability, and alerting systems
• Stateful systems and distributed infrastructure management
• Scripting and programming for operational tasks
• Incident response and root cause analysis
• Communication and documentation skills

Benefits

• Deep ownership of production systems and architectural decisions
• Async-first remote culture with meeting-free Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Work with well-funded, product-led company in strong growth phase
• Transparency into company roadmap, revenue, and strategy
• Autonomous team structure with flexible, impact-driven priorities
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge product analytics infrastructure