# Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems at Hightouch

- Company: Hightouch
- What the company does: Hightouch is the Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP: AI marketing that actually knows your brand, customers, and business. Backed by Peak XV, Y Combinator and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://www.hightouch.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote (North America)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/5983855004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hightouch-principal-engineer-streaming-systems/

## About the role

We are looking for a principal engineer to join our Streaming Systems team, leading work on the high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform realtime computation on billions of behavioral events from our customer’s 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.

## What they're looking for

- Preserving
- 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

Tags: Engineering