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Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

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180000.00 - 320000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Leading work on high-throughput systems that collect, forward, and perform realtime computation on billions of behavioral events
  • Building infrastructure that ingests clickstream, product interaction, and transactional data into our platform
  • 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
  • Own and deliver projects from start to finish
  • Work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling problems
  • Have significant influence over our technical roadmap

Requirements:

  • Experienced engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers
  • Motivated by high ownership and comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment
  • Experience leading highly complex and ambitious projects
  • Want to mentor and up level engineers around you
  • Experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale
  • Can broadcast and encourage technical excellence
  • Have opinions about how engineering should be done
  • Want to help scale a rapidly growing engineering team
What we offer:
  • Equity via ISO options
  • Early exercise
  • 10 year post-termination exercise window

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 03, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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