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Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-08-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing and scaling high-throughput streaming systems that ingest and perform real-time computation on billions of behavioral events to power an AI marketing agent product.

Role type

Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

Builds

Real-time data ingestion and computation infrastructure for the 'Cursor for Marketers' AI agent

Domain

Marketing Technology / Real-time Data Streaming

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, High-throughput system design, Real-time data processing, System scalability, Zero-downtime deployment strategies, Caching optimization, Message deduplication

Preferred skills

Greenfield product development, Technical leadership, Mentoring engineers

Technologies

(Not explicitly listed)

Responsibilities

Architecting systems for deduplicating message delivery at 1,000,000 messages/second, Improving caching strategies for online computation services, Designing patterns for zero-downtime deployments, Leading complex technical projects from start to finish, Mentoring and up-leveling engineers

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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