Principal Engineer, Streaming Systems

Alex James Digital is an AI platform for marketing and growth teams, seeking a principal engineer to lead their streaming team. The role involves building infrastructure for high-throughput systems that process billions of behavioral events in real-time, ensuring scalability and low latency for their AI products.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• Experience leading highly complex and ambitious projects
• Experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale
• Passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Ability to mentor and up level engineers
• Opinions about how engineering should be done and desire to help scale a rapidly growing engineering team
• Experience with Typescript, Node, Kubernetes, Kafka, Go, Docker, Postgres, and Object storage
• Experience with high-throughput systems that collect and perform realtime computation on large volumes of data
• Experience with caching strategies for online computation services
• Experience with message delivery systems and deduplication at high throughput
• Experience with zero-downtime deployments