Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Hightouch as an Engineering Manager to lead our event collection and identity resolution services. This role involves scaling existing services to handle millions of requests per second, solving complex distributed systems problems, and optimizing performance. You will lead a team of engineers, fostering high ownership and autonomy. The position requires experience with large-scale data processing, distributed systems, and a proven track record of driving impact. Hightouch offers a competitive salary, meaningful equity compensation, and a remote-first policy.

Requirements

• Have a strong track record of driving impact in multiple environments
• Value excellence in what you do, and bring out excellence in those around you
• Be adept at making pragmatic judgements about how to move forward in a messy, fast-moving, real world scenario
• Have strong opinions about what the right architecture is for a given distributed systems problem
• Reason from first principles about problems, and take feedback well to adjust your solutions
• Owned systems that have undergone orders of magnitude of growth and helped them scale accordingly

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of best in class engineers
• Lead by example, continuing to raise our already high technical bar, and making thoughtful judgement calls
• Reliably Streaming Events at Low Latency: Continue to scale our event product’s capabilities, while maintaining reliability and reducing the end to end latency of event processing. Work with other teams who will be processing these events live to deliver new features
• Improving Algorithms and Data Structures for Identity Resolution: Process billions of rows efficiently and expand the capabilities of this product, requiring careful work on the underlying algorithms
• Feature Development: Add features to our products based on customer wants, working with product and design teams

Preferred Qualifications

You’ve built or scaled event/data streaming engines that process and move terabytes of data per day in a scalable way

Benefits

• True technical ownership with room to run
• The salary range for this position is $220,000 - $280,000K USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy
• Meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window