Principal Engineer, Real-Time Streaming Systems

Hightouch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Hightouch is seeking a Principal Engineer for its Streaming Systems team to lead the development of high-throughput systems that handle billions of behavioral events in real-time. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems and a passion for mentoring engineers in a fast-paced, startup environment. The role offers a competitive salary range of $180,000 – $320,000 per year, with equity compensation and a remote-first policy.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
• Passion for solving hard technical problems and mentoring engineers.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead work on high-throughput systems that process billions of behavioral events.
• Ensure <1s end-to-end system latency while sustaining throughput over 1,000,000 messages per second.
• Own and deliver projects from start to finish while working directly with customers.

Skills

Distributed systems

High throughput architecture

Message deduplication

Real-time computation

Mentoring

Job description

Hightouch is seeking a Principal Engineer for its Streaming Systems team to lead the development of high-throughput systems that handle billions of behavioral events in real-time. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems and a passion for mentoring engineers in a fast-paced, startup environment. The role offers a competitive salary range of $180,000 – $320,000 per year, with equity compensation and a remote-first policy.