Software Engineer, Streaming Systems
About The Position
Hightouch is seeking a software engineer to join their Streaming Systems team. This role involves working on high-throughput systems responsible for collecting, forwarding, and performing real-time computations on billions of behavioral events from customer users. The engineer will build the infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into the Hightouch platform, which serves as the foundation for their "Cursor for Marketers" AI agent product. The company's streaming products have experienced significant growth, necessitating the scaling of infrastructure to handle millions of messages per second with single-second latency. A recently added computation engine for real-time personalization based on live behavior is also driving demand. Hightouch emphasizes high levels of ownership and autonomy for its engineers, expecting them to own and deliver projects end-to-end, interact directly with customers to address scaling challenges, and influence the technical roadmap.
Requirements
- Passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers.
- Motivated by high ownership.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment.
- Experience and comfort with distributed systems and high-scale systems or the ability and desire to build this experience quickly.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with streaming systems like Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, Warpstream
- Experience with high RPS, low p99 latency systems
Responsibilities
- Work on high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform real-time computation on billions of behavioral events.
- Build the infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into the platform.
- Ensure infrastructure scales to handle millions of messages per second at single-second latency.
- Own and deliver projects from start to finish.
- Work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling problems.
- Have significant influence over the technical roadmap.
Benefits
- Location independent compensation
- Equity via ISO options
- Early exercise of options
- 10 year post-termination exercise window for options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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