Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems
$180,000 – $320,000 USD
Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Lead work on high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform real-time computation on billions of behavioral events.
- Build infrastructure for ingesting clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into the platform.
- Ensure the infrastructure can handle millions of messages per second at single-second latency end-to-end.
- Architect systems for deduplicating message delivery at 1,000,000 messages/second.
- Own and deliver projects from start to finish with high levels of ownership and autonomy.
Soft Skills
System DesignMentoringTechnical Decision-MakingCustomer Obsessed
Benefits
- Equity
- Remote Work
- Mental Health
Culture
Mission-DrivenImpact-OrientedCustomer-ObsessedFast-PacedHigh Growth
Requirements
Regions: Us
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About Hightouch
Industry: saas
Size: small
Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by a Composable CDP, enabling marketers to build and ship end-to-end campaigns with complete brand context, customer data, and performance history. Founded in 2019, Hightouch helps marketing teams analyze performance, brainstorm, and generate creative with speed and quality.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $180,000 – $320,000 USD
Equity: Large portion of compensation in ISO options with early exercise and a 10-year post-termination exercise window.