Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Engineer (Streaming Systems)

• Focus: High-throughput, real-time streaming infrastructure for behavioral events

• Key challenge: < 1 second end-to-end latency at 1,000,000+ messages/second

Description

You will lead work on the streaming systems that collect, forward, and perform real-time computation on billions of behavioral events. You’ll build the infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into the platform powering an AI agent product. The role emphasizes greenfield system design and scaling new computation capabilities while maintaining single-second end-to-end latency.

Responsibilities

• Preserve <1s end-to-end system latency at throughput over 1,000,000 messages/second

• Improve caching strategies for an online computation service

• Architect message delivery deduplication at 1,000,000 messages/second

• Develop patterns for elegant, zero-downtime deployments in the online computation service

• Deliver projects end-to-end with high ownership and autonomy

• Work directly with customers to solve the hardest scaling problems

• Mentor and up-level engineers; help scale a growing engineering team

Requirements

• Experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale

• Proven experience leading highly complex and ambitious projects

• Motivated by high ownership in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to mentor and up-level other engineers

• Ability to drive technical excellence across a growing team

Benefits

• Base salary range: $180,000 - $400,000 USD per year (remote-first, location independent)

• Significant compensation in the form of equity via ISO options

• Early exercise and a 10-year post-termination exercise window