Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

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.

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 are building new products from scratch, so we need someone who enjoys greenfield work and leading other engineers. Some of the problems you’d work on include:

• Preserving <1s end to end system latency at throughput over 1,000,000 messages / second.
• Improving caching strategies for our online computation service
• Architecting a system that can deduplicate message delivery at 1,000,000 messages / second.
• Patterns for elegant and zero-downtime deployments in our online computation service

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 base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $320,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. A large portion of the compensation will be in the form of equity via ISO options. We offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window.

About You

• You are an experienced 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 leading highly complex and ambitious projects, and want to mentor and up level engineers around you.
• 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.