Principal Engineer, Hightouch
Streaming Systems
$180-320k
+ equity
AI platform for marketers
Open for applications
AI platform for marketers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-320k
+ equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the best customer data technology in the world available to every enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers. You’re motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment. You have experience leading highly complex and ambitious projects, and want to mentor and up level engineers around you
- You have experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale, and can broadcast and encourage technical excellence in doing so
- You have opinions about how engineering should be done, and want to help scale a rapidly growing engineering team
What the job involves
- We are looking for a principal engineer to join our Streaming Systems team, leading work on the high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform realtime computation on billions of behavioral events from our customer’s users
- You'll be building the infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into our platform
- This data is the platform for our “Cursor for Marketers” AI agent product
- Our streaming products’ revenue has 10x’d over the past year, and we need to ensure that we continue to scale
- Our infrastructure needs to handle millions of messages per second at single second latency end to end
- Recently, we added a computation engine that allows personalizing user experiences in real-time based on live behavior; we’re seeing 7-figure market response in the first few months and need to scale up to meet demand
- We are building new products from scratch, so we need someone who enjoys greenfield work and leading other engineers
- Some of the problems you’d work on include:
- 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
- You will own and deliver projects from start to finish, work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling problems, and have significant influence over our technical roadmap
Application process
- Our goal with the interview process is to balance speed with giving both parties opportunities to assess whether there is a strong mutual fit. We will ask you questions, but we want you to ask us questions!
- Our technical interviews focus on how you design systems because we believe this is the best way for us to see how you work and for you to see how we collaborate
- Recruiter Screen [30m]: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
- System Design Screen [45m]: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end
- Hiring Manager Interview [30m]: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles
- System Design Interview [90m]: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical
- Execution and Impact [60m]: Pick a project you lead and prepare to give the interviewer a walk through. Then deep dive and answer questions about the project execution and how you lead it
Our take
With the growing need to combine data sources, along with the rise of cloud computing, demand for effective data integration tools and services has been on the rise. Hightouch provides a composable customer data platform to serve innovative marketers, alongside AI-powered tools for marketing.
Hightouch's platform helps marketers to build audiences and customer identities, collect and synch data, and analyse campaigns. LLM-based agents can be deployed to help streamline marketing, and the platform also supports AI decisioning. This comprehensive suite enables Hightouch to serve a range of businesses such as Spotify, Docusign, Warner Music Group, Grammarly and Autotrader.
Through development and acquisitions, such as of Workbase and Whatis, Hightouch has expanded steadily over the years. So long as it continues to enhance its capabilities and provide seamless data activation for its growing customer base, the company should have a bright future ahead of it.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$38m
LATE VC
Total funding: $172.4m
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
- 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-CEO & Co-Founder)A Software Engineer with experience in lead roles at Lottery.com and Segment. Co-founded Hightouch in 2019.
Josh Curl
(CTO & Co-Founder)Significant Software Engineering experience at Rancher Labs and Segment. Co-founded Deviceplane in 2019 before co-founding Hightouch.
Kashish Gupta
(Co-CEO & 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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