Who you are

• You are an 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 and comfort with distributed systems and high-scale systems or the ability and desire to build this experience quickly. This experience can take different forms
• Experience with streaming systems like Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, Warpstream
• Experience with high RPS, low p99 latency systems

What the job involves

• We are looking for a software engineer to join our Streaming Systems team, working on the high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform real time computation on billions of behavioral events from our customers’ users
• You'll be building the infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into our platform
• This data is the platform for our “Cursor for Marketers” AI agent product
• Our streaming products’ revenue has 10x’d over the past year, and we need to ensure that we continue to scale
• Our infrastructure needs to handle millions of messages per second at single second latency end to end
• Recently, we added a computation engine that allows personalizing user experiences in real-time based on live behavior; we’re seeing 7-figure market response in the first few months and need to scale up to meet demand
• We believe in enabling our engineers to do their best work for our customers by giving them extremely high levels of ownership and autonomy
• You will own and deliver projects from start to finish, work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling problems, and have significant influence over our technical roadmap

The application process

• Our goal with the interview process is to balance speed with giving both parties opportunities to assess whether there is a strong mutual fit
• We will ask you questions, but we want you to ask us questions
• Our technical interviews focus on how you design systems because we believe this is the best way for us to see how you work and for you to see how we collaborate
• We don’t ask you to write code to solve technical brainteasers that don’t appear in your day to day job
• Apply: Curl jobapi.hightouchdata.com on port 13784 and have followed those instructions before applying. It'll only take a minute!
• Recruiter Screen [30m]: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
• System Design Screen [45m]: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end
• Hiring Manager Interview [30m]: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles
• System Design Interview [90m]: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical
• We have limited inbound applications to one application per candidate. You will be auto-rejected if you apply to multiple roles. Please only apply to the position you are most qualified for

Benefits

• Hub & Remote friendly: Join our global team, either remotely or in one of our four in-person hubs. For those near a hub, enjoy complimentary lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Flexible PTO: Downtime is just as important as on time and your teammates will support you while you relax and recharge
• Core benefits: For full-time US-based employees, we cover all health benefit premiums, 80% for dependents, and life insurance
• Parental leave: We value and support the family planning process. We provide up to 16 weeks for parents
• Professional development: We support employees for all learning resources needed to grow in their role (classes, books, conferences, etc)
• Connectivity: We offer a $50 per month cell-phone or wifi connectivity stipend to all employees
• Commuter: Commuter benefits of $50 are offered to both employees who come into the offices and to remote workers working outside of their home