About this role
Lead the design and scaling of high-throughput streaming infrastructure that processes billions of behavioral events per second with sub-second latency. Build the data ingestion and real-time computation platform powering Hightouch's AI marketing agent product.
Must have
Experience architecting and building distributed systems at scale
Track record leading complex technical projects from start to finish
Passion for mentoring and elevating engineers around you
Comfortable in fast-paced startup environment with high ownership
Strong opinions on engineering practices and scaling teams
Technologies
Responsibilities
Lead design of high-throughput streaming systems processing billions of events
Ensure sub-second end-to-end latency at over 1M messages per second
Architect deduplication systems for massive scale message delivery
Build caching strategies for online computation services
Design zero-downtime deployment patterns for critical services
Own projects from conception through customer delivery
Collaborate directly with customers on hardest scaling problems
Influence technical roadmap for rapidly growing streaming products
Benefits
Amenities
Recruitment process
Greenfield product development with significant autonomy
Streaming product revenue has grown 10x in past year
New real-time personalization engine showing 7-figure market response
Interview process emphasizes system design over coding brainteasers
Limited to one application per candidate
E-Verify participation for U.S. work eligibility verification post-hire
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