Engineering Manager, Hightouch
Events
$220-280k
+ Equity compensation in the form of ISO options and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window
Data solution for syncing customer data to business tools
Be an early applicant
Data solution for syncing customer data to business tools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-280k
+ Equity compensation in the form of ISO options and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to take action on their data.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for people who are hungry, motivated by high ownership, hard problems, and who have a strong track record of driving impact in multiple environments
- This is a leadership role, but we care about evidence of impact and potential for growth more than years of experience
- Value excellence in what you do, and bring out excellence in those around you
- Are adept at making pragmatic judgements about how to move forward in a messy, fast-moving, real world scenario
- Have strong opinions about what the right architecture is for a given distributed systems problem
- Reason from first principles about problems, and take feedback well to adjust your solutions
- Owned systems that have undergone orders of magnitude of growth and helped them scale accordingly
- [Even Better] You’ve built or scaled event/data streaming engines that process and move terabytes of data per day in a scalable way
What the job involves
- We are looking for an engineering manager to lead our event collection and identity resolution services
- This is an opportunity to take services that are already processing large volumes of data, and push them into the realm of millions of requests per second
- There will be many opportunities to solve hard problems in distributed systems, performance optimization, and architecture. We need someone who thrives when pushing the boundaries of what is possible
- You would lead a team of best in class engineers. We believe in enabling our engineers to do their best work for our customers by giving them extremely high levels of ownership and autonomy
- You would help by leading by example, continuing to raise our already high technical bar, and making thoughtful judgement calls
- Reliably Streaming Events at Low Latency: We need to continue to scale our event product’s capabilities, while maintaining reliability and reducing the end to end latency of event processing. We also need to work with other teams who will be processing these events live to deliver new features
- Improving Algorithms and Data Structures for Identity Resolution: Our identity resolution product needs to be able to process billions of rows efficiently. We’ll also be expanding the capabilities of this product, so careful work on the underlying algorithms will be required
- Feature Development: We have a backlog of features we know customers want and we’d love to add to our products. This is an opportunity to stay close to customers and work with product and design, while doing deep distributed systems work
- True technical ownership with room to run. You’ll shape huge parts of our core systems and culture. We are growing extremely fast, and your ability to grow and work on harder and harder problems will be limited by only how far you want to go
Application process
- We believe interviews should test how you drive real impact in ambiguous situations, not whether you know the solution to a specific algorithmic puzzle. Expect to do a lot of first principles thinking and no coding challenges
- The interview order may change but our panel is generally as follows:
- Recruiter Screen [30m]: Chat with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
- Leadership and Management [60m]: Meet with the hiring manager to discuss how you lead
- System Design Interview [90m]: Work with an engineer to architect a system at a conceptual level. You’ll start from customer requirements and work all the way down to specific technical implementation
- Execution and Impact [90m]: Talk with the hiring manager to assess how you drive impact, prioritize, and maintain technical excellence. Expect to discuss past projects
- Sync Engine Speed Analysis [60m]: Work with the VP of Engineering to see how you measure and analyze the performance of a real system
Our take
The use of data integration software involves combining data from different sources to provide users with a unified view. Due to the growing need to combine several heterogeneous data sources, along with the rise of cloud computing, demand for effective data integration tools and services has been increasing.
While Fivetran is one of the most prominent platforms companies use to “extract, transform, and load” data into its warehouse, Hightouch does the opposite of that, what has become known as “reverse ETL.” For example, a company could use Fivetran to get the data into its warehouse and then use Hightouch to get the data from the warehouse and into Salesforce.
Hightouch serves a diverse range of clients, from B2B giants like Kong, Plaid, and Mattermost to B2C leaders like Nando's and Autotrader. With recent acquisitions including the product-led sales automation startup Workbase and the knowledge management startup Whatis, alongside an expanded partnership with Snowflake, Highlight continues to enhance its capabilities and provide seamless data activation for its growing customer base.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$38m
LATE VC
Total funding: $172.2m
Company benefits
- Hub & Remote friendly: Join our global team, either remotely or in one of our four in-person hubs. For those near a hub, enjoy complimentary lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Flexible PTO: Downtime is just as important as on time and your teammates will support you while you relax and recharge
- Wellness: We offer wellness days each quarter
- Core benefits: For full-time US-based employees, we cover all health benefit premiums, 80% for dependents, and life insurance
- Parental leave: We value and support the family planning process. We provide up to 16 weeks for parents
- Professional development: We support employees for all learning resources needed to grow in their role (classes, books, conferences, etc)
- Connectivity: We offer a $50 per month cell-phone or wifi connectivity stipend to all employees
- Commuter: Commuter benefits of $50 are offered to both employees who come into the offices and to remote workers working outside of their home
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tejas Manohar
(Co-Founder)A Software Engineer with experience in lead roles at Lottery.com and Segment. Co-founded Hightouch in 2019.
Josh Curl
(Co-Founder & CTO)Significant Software Engineering experience at Rancher Labs and Segment. Co-founded Deviceplane in 2019 before co-founding Hightouch.
Kashish Gupta
(Co-Founder)Experience as a Product Manager for LYNK in 2016. Founded Mama's Cookin' in 2015 before co-founding Hightouch in 2019.
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