Hightouch

Software Engineer, Streaming Systems

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5 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $320k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into the platform.
  • Develop systems that collect, forward, and perform real-time computation on billions of behavioral events.
  • Scale systems to handle millions of messages per second with single-second end-to-end latency.
  • Own and deliver projects from start to finish.
  • Work directly with customers to solve difficult scaling problems.
  • Influence the technical roadmap.

Requirements

  • Experience with or the ability and desire to quickly build experience in distributed systems and high-scale systems.
  • Passion for solving difficult technical problems that create customer value.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership and autonomy.
  • Experience with streaming systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, or Warpstream is useful but not required.
  • Experience with high requests-per-second and low p99 latency systems is useful but not required.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, location-independent policy
  • Equity compensation via ISO options
  • Early exercise opportunity
  • 10-year post-termination exercise window

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaDatabricksSnowflake

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Hightouch

501-1,000 employees

Hightouch builds a composable customer data platform and agentic marketing tools that let companies activate data from their warehouses for targeting, analytics, and campaigns. It sells SaaS used by marketing and data teams, including reverse ETL, identity resolution, and real-time audiences across ads, email, and product channels. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco, it is privately held and counts Domino’s, Spotify, and Ramp among customers.

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