# Software Engineer, Streaming Systems

**Company:** [Hightouch](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hightouch)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $320k/yr
**Skills:** Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, Warpstream, Distributed Systems, Streaming Systems, Real-Time Computation
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Builds and scales high-throughput streaming infrastructure to ingest and process billions of customer behavioral events in real-time at sub-second latency. Owns end-to-end projects, solves customer scaling issues, and influences roadmap in a remote-first startup.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build high-throughput infrastructure that ingests, forwards, and performs real-time computation on billions of behavioral events (clickstream, product interaction, transactional data).
- Scale streaming systems to handle millions of messages per second at single-second latency.
- Develop computation engine for real-time personalization of user experiences.
- Own and deliver projects end-to-end, work directly with customers on scaling problems, influence technical roadmap.

## Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems and high-scale systems (or strong desire to build this experience).
- Comfort in fast-paced startup environment with high ownership and autonomy.
- Passion for solving hard technical problems that generate customer value.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with streaming systems like Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, Warpstream.
- Experience with high RPS, low p99 latency systems.

## Compensation
- Base salary: $180,000 - $320,000 USD per year (location independent).
- Large portion in equity via ISO options (early exercise, 10-year post-termination window).

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