Remote-First Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

Hightouch; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 700,000 - 1,555,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Job summary

Hightouch is seeking a principal engineer for its Streaming Systems team to lead the high-throughput ingestion, processing, and real-time computation of billions of behavioral events. You will build infrastructure for clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data feeding the Cursor for Marketers AI product.

We expect you to own projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help shape the technical roadmap while operating in a remote-first environment with significant ownership and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building distributed streaming systems.
• Proven track record leading complex, high-impact projects.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Ingest, forward, and compute billions of events in real-time.
• Maintain end-to-end latency under 1 second at multi-million msg/sec.
• Improve caching and deduplication for online computation.
• Design zero-downtime deployment patterns for services.

Skills

High-throughput systems

Distributed systems architecture

System design leadership

Mentoring engineers

Ownership and autonomy

Job description

Hightouch is seeking a principal engineer for its Streaming Systems team to lead the high-throughput ingestion, processing, and real-time computation of billions of behavioral events. You will build infrastructure for clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data feeding the Cursor for Marketers AI product.

We expect you to own projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help shape the technical roadmap while operating in a remote-first environment with significant ownership and