PostHog
SaaS
BackendEngineer—Billing
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“Backend Engineer — Billing at PostHog. Skills: Python, SQL, complex data modeling, billing systems. Scale billing system. Build flexible billing primitives”
What You'll Achieve.
Scaling our billing system to $100M+ revenue; launching a new pricing model; making our usage reporting and limiting near-realtime; Turning usage and messy raw invoice data into actionable internal reports; accurate forecasts; compliant financials; Making billing the source of truth for pricing; subscriptions and invoicing; Shipping 5+ pricing launches and changes this quarter; including two new pricing models
Industry & Context.
Edge cases make you excited; finding the right balance is the main challenge
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Python, SQL, complex data modeling, data pipelines, task queues, workflow orchestration, automation, internal tool development, error handling, rollbacks, retries
Nice to Have
built and scaled usage-based billing systems, revenue modeling, forecasting, accounting ledgers
What You'll Do.
Build flexible billing primitives
Make usage reporting near-realtime
Turn usage data into reports
Make all of the above go brrr
Implement ledger-based revenue model
Re-build dashboards and reports
Make billing source of truth
Ship pricing launches and changes
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product; Work with finance; Work with GTM; Work with marketing
Process & Methodology
led a major project from scratch
Full Job Description
ABOUT POSTHOG We're shipping every product that companies need https://posthog.com/handbook/why-does-posthog-exist to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software. We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort https://posthog.com/handbook/story. We've since shipped more than a dozen products https://posthog.com/products, including: - A built-in data warehouse https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights. - A customer data platform https://posthog.com/docs/cdp, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease. - PostHog AI https://posthog.com/ai, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries. Next on the roadmap are CRM, Workflow, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it! We are: 1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit. 2. Default alive https://paulgraham.com/aord.html. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on. 3. Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors https://posthog.com/handbook/strategy/investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey. We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible https://posthog.com/deskhog WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR Someone has to make sure PostHog actually gets paid. That's us. We have 14+ usage-based products, subscription add-ons, and soon seat-based pricing with credit pools. Every dollar PostHog makes flows through what we build. If we screw up
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