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HightouchHightouchUnited States

Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

Leads development of high-throughput streaming systems handling millions of messages per second with sub-second latency for real-time behavioral data processing and AI personalization. Requires expertise in distributed systems architecture, scaling infrastructure, and leading complex projects.

180k – 320k/yr
RemoteBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead work on high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform realtime computation on billions of behavioral events.
  • Build infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data.
  • Preserve <1s end-to-end system latency at throughput over 1,000,000 messages/second.
  • Improve caching strategies for online computation service.
  • Architect system to deduplicate message delivery at 1,000,000 messages/second.
  • Develop patterns for elegant and zero-downtime deployments in online computation service.
  • Own and deliver projects from start to finish, work directly with customers on scaling problems, influence technical roadmap.

Requirements

  • Experienced in architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience leading highly complex and ambitious projects.
  • Ability to mentor and up-level engineers.
  • Passion for solving hard technical problems with high ownership in fast-paced startup environment.
  • Strong opinions on engineering best practices to scale a growing team.

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).

Skills

Distributed SystemsStreaming SystemsCachingSystem ArchitectureReal-Time ComputationHigh-Throughput SystemsZero-Downtime DeploymentsData IngestionClickstream ProcessingSnowflakeDatabricks

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