Highspot · 2 months ago
Sr. Principal Engineer, Interact Analytics Experiences (Platform/Full-Stack/In-App)
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$277K/yr - $342K/yr
10+ years expHighspot is pioneering sales productivity through innovative software solutions. They are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the Analytics Platform, focusing on in-app analytics experiences and real-time insights for customers while driving technical innovations and best practices in analytics and reporting.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareSales AutomationSales EnablementSoftware
Responsibilities
Architect and Scale the Analytics Platform – Design and evolve the key parts of our system including database/query optimizations, backend scalability, and frontend framework improvements to support self-serve analytics and real-time insights
Lead Frontend and Backend Analytics Excellence – Ensure the Analytics Platform provides a scalable, efficient, and well-governed foundation for serving analytical queries and reports while advancing the frontend component architecture to support interactive analytics experiences
Own End-to-End Analytics Flow – Guide the transformation, querying, and visualization of analytics data, optimizing for performance, usability, and seamless integration across backend and frontend systems
Evolve Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Data Governance – Enhance our RBAC framework to ensure the right people have access to the data they need while maintaining security, compliance, and performance across the Analytics Platform
Enable Advanced Visualization & Reporting – Partner with Product and Engineering teams to evolve and optimize our ad-hoc data visualization and reporting framework, ensuring robust composable components with efficient state management and interaction logic
Drive Best Practices and Technical Standards – Establish and evangelize patterns for query optimization, schema evolution, frontend component reusability, and analytics-driven UI design
Lead and Mentor – Act as a technical leader and mentor for engineers across the team, providing deep technical guidance on analytics, query performance, frontend development, and reporting challenges
Cross-Team Collaboration – Partner with engineering teams across product, backend, frontend, Data-Platform and AI/ML to ensure a seamless, high-performing analytics experience
Operational Excellence – Define and drive SLA, availability, and performance objectives, ensuring the Analytics Platform meets the needs of our Analytics and Insights vision
Qualification
Required
10+ years in software engineering with deep experience in analytics platforms, query engines, OLAP databases, and frontend analytics frameworks
Strong hands-on knowledge of OLAP databases, query transpilation, analytics frameworks, and frontend-driven analytics experiences
Experience designing and developing reusable, performant, and scalable frontend components for interactive analytics experiences
Deep understanding of modern frontend frameworks, component-based architecture, and state management patterns to enable dynamic, data-rich visualizations
Experience designing and implementing scalable analytics-serving platforms and interactive query experiences with frontend and backend considerations
Proficiency in SQL, TypeScript, React, and modern transpilation techniques, with a solid understanding of query optimization, frontend component reusability, and performance tuning
Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform/Pulumi, with a focus on analytics services and frontend scalability
Proven ability to drive cross-functional technical initiatives and influence platform decisions across both backend and frontend architectures
Passion for solving complex problems in interactive analytics, frontend visualization, query processing, and composable reporting frameworks
Commitment to ensuring high query performance, frontend responsiveness, availability, and data accuracy
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match
Flexible PTO
8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week
Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
18 weeks paid parental leave
Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
2 volunteer days per year
Commuting benefits
Company
Highspot
Highspot is a sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$644.85MKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementICONIQ GrowthOpenView
2022-07-01Secondary Market
2022-01-13Series F· $248M
2021-02-22Series E· $200M
Leadership Team
Robert Wahbe
CEO
David Wortendyke
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
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