Principal Streaming Systems Engineer – Real-Time at Scale

Rozgoo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Hightouch is seeking a principal engineer to lead the Streaming Systems team, building high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure that ingests billions of events for the Cursor for Marketers AI product. You will help design and scale systems that process clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data in real time.

The role emphasizes greenfield development and leading other engineers, with a focus on preserving sub-second latency and zero-downtime deployments as the platform scales.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineers on greenfield projects.
• Ability to preserve sub-second latency at high throughput.
• Experience with scalable online computation services and real-time personalization.

Responsibilities

• Preserving <1s end to end system latency at throughput over 1,000,000 messages / second.
• Improving caching strategies for our online computation service.
• Architecting a system that can deduplicate message delivery at 1,000,000 messages / second.
• Patterns for elegant and zero-downtime deployments in our online computation service.

Skills

Principal engineer

Streaming systems

Real-time processing

High throughput

Low latency

Job description

Hightouch is seeking a principal engineer to lead the Streaming Systems team, building high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure that ingests billions of events for the Cursor for Marketers AI product. You will help design and scale systems that process clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data in real time.

The role emphasizes greenfield development and leading other engineers, with a focus on preserving sub-second latency and zero-downtime deployments as the platform scales.