Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

HightouchSan Francisco, California, United StatesRemotefull_timeprincipal

$180,000 – $320,000 USD

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Tech Stack

Distributed Systems

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
  • Mental Health
  • Remote Work

Culture

Mission-DrivenImpact-OrientedCustomer-ObsessedFast-PacedHigh GrowthMentorship ProgramGreenfield Work

Requirements

Regions: Us

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About Hightouch
Industry: saas
Size: medium

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform that leverages a Composable CDP to empower marketers to build and ship end-to-end campaigns with complete brand context, customer data, and performance history. Founded in 2019, Hightouch aims to help customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses.

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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.
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