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$180,000–$400,000/yr
Global

  • Build high-throughput streaming infrastructure that ingests billions of behavioral events and powers real-time personalization.
  • Own projects from start to finish and shape the technical roadmap for the Streaming Systems team.
  • Work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling and low-latency challenges.

Distributed Systems Kafka System Design

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$180,000–$400,000/yr
Global

  • Lead architecture for streaming systems handling millions of messages per second with sub-second latency.
  • Own greenfield projects end-to-end and mentor engineers to raise technical excellence.
  • Work with customers on scaling challenges and shape the technical roadmap.

They build a real-time platform that ingests billions of behavioral events to power their 'Cursor for Marketers' AI agent product. They are a remote-first startup with a fast-paced culture, high ownership, and meaningful equity for engineers.

$180,000–$320,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale distributed systems to move large volumes of customer data efficiently.
  • Develop streaming capabilities for real-time data syncing from webhooks and message queues.
  • Optimize system performance, latency, and multi-region infrastructure.

A marketing technology company building a distributed data platform for efficient customer data movement. They foster a high-velocity startup culture with a strong emphasis on autonomy and engineering excellence.

$217,000–$303,900/yr
US

  • Lead the development of Reddit's Ingestion Platform, designing and delivering reliable software for distributed data movement across streaming and batch workloads.
  • Own the architecture of the platform's control and data planes, including pipeline APIs, connectors, and sink integrations, expanding beyond Kafka-to-BigQuery to S3/GCS and Apache Iceberg.
  • Mentor engineers, drive migrations from legacy systems, and establish robust reliability, security, and operational practices for pipelines running on Kubernetes.

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, hosting authentic conversations across 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors. The company fosters an open, collaborative culture with a focus on reliability, performance, and efficiency.

Ireland

  • Design and deliver major components of Twilio's carrier test and observability platform.
  • Build high-throughput data and alerting systems that turn telemetry into actionable signals.
  • Extend and harden production LLM systems for automated carrier troubleshooting with safe guardrails.

Twilio is a customer engagement platform that delivers innovative communications solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empowers millions of developers worldwide. The company is remote-first, values connection and global inclusion, and has a vibrant culture where diverse employees make a global impact.

$146,000–$225,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Break down larger projects into individual tasks and deliver them in phases with support from your tech lead and manager.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to make decisions that consider risks and trade-offs.
  • Support operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating metrics and participating in on-call efforts.

Affirm is a financial technology company that provides transparent, flexible payment solutions. The company is remote-first and fosters a culture of care, transparency, and flexibility.

$164,200–$229,900/yr
US

  • Refine and maintain data infrastructure for ML and analytics workflows on data from hundreds of millions of users.
  • Own the Data Movement Platform enabling batch and stream processing, investing in Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies.
  • Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work, providing a declarative, self-service experience for data users.

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. With over 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information, fostering a flexible and inclusive culture.

$164,448–$234,926/yr
North America 5w PTO

  • Architect, build, and evolve backend systems for personalization at Spotify scale.
  • Design reliable, performant services for high-volume recommendation workloads.
  • Partner with PMs, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Designers to build new recommendation experiences.

Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, connecting artists and fans through music and podcasts. The company has an inclusive, forward-thinking culture and a global team of employees.

$240,000–$320,000/yr
North America

  • Customer intent is clearest in the moment they're interacting, and the window to act on it is short.
  • Hitting that window is one of the hardest infrastructure problems in the data stack.
  • You'll decide where it goes from here.

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the Composable CDP, enabling marketing teams to build and ship end-to-end campaigns. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is trusted by leading enterprises and values a culture of ambition, humility, and kindness.