Hightouch · 1 month ago
Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $320K/yrHightouch is a modern AI platform for marketing and growth teams, seeking a principal engineer to lead the Streaming Systems team. The role involves building infrastructure for processing billions of behavioral events and ensuring high throughput and low latency for streaming products.
CRMDeveloper PlatformSaaS
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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
A large portion of the compensation will be in the form of equity via ISO options.
We offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window.
Company
Hightouch
Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customers data from the data warehouse to CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Founded in 2018
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2022 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$182.2MKey Investors
Sapphire VenturesBain Capital VenturesICONIQ Growth
2025-07-29Series C· $10M
2025-02-18Series C· $80M
2023-07-19Series B· $38M
Leadership Team
Kashish Gupta
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Tejas Manohar
Cofounder and Co-CEO
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