Hightouch

Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

Remote (North America) · Principal

Work authorization required$180k-$400kDetected 35 days ago

About the role

This data is the platform for our "Cursor for Marketers" AI agent product.
Our streaming products' revenue has 10x'd over the past year, and we need to ensure that we continue to scale.
Our infrastructure needs to handle millions of messages per second at single second latency end to end.

With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves.
System Design Screen [45m]: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end.
System Design Interview [90m]: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical.
Execution and Impact [60m]: Pick a project you lead and prepare to give the interviewer a walk through. Then deep dive and answer questions about the project execution and how you lead it.

You have experience leading highly complex and ambitious projects, and want to mentor and up level engineers around you.
You have opinions about how engineering should be done, and want to help scale a rapidly growing engineering team.

The base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $400,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy.

A large portion of the compensation will be in the form of equity via ISO options.

We are looking for a principal engineer to join our Streaming Systems team, leading work on the high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform realtime computation on billions of behavioral events from our customer's users.
We are building new products from scratch, so we need someone who enjoys greenfield work and leading other engineers. Some of the problems you'd work on include:
Preserving We believe in enabling our engineers to do their best work for our customers by giving them extremely high levels of ownership and autonomy.
We are building new products from scratch, so we need someone who enjoys greenfield work and leading other engineers.
You are an experienced engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers.
Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP.
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.
At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses.
If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.

We will provide the Social Security Administration, and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

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