Principal Real-Time Streaming Architect

Hightouch; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hightouch, a remote‑first marketing platform based in San Francisco, seeks a principal engineer for the Streaming Systems team to own and advance high‑throughput, real‑time data infrastructure that ingests billions of events per second.

You will lead greenfield work, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions to scale our Cursor for Marketers AI product and ensure sub‑second latency at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
• Strong ownership mindset with ability to mentor and up‑level engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead high‑throughput streaming infrastructure ingesting clickstream, product interaction, and event data.
• Preserve sub‑1s end‑to‑end latency at >1,000,000 messages/second.
• Architect zero‑downtime deployments and scalable caching strategies for live computation services.

Skills

Distributed systems

System design

High throughput

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Hightouch, a remote‑first marketing platform based in San Francisco, seeks a principal engineer for the Streaming Systems team to own and advance high‑throughput, real‑time data infrastructure that ingests billions of events per second.

You will lead greenfield work, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions to scale our Cursor for Marketers AI product and ensure sub‑second latency at scale.