Developer Productivity Engineer
About the role
We are looking for a developer productivity engineer to take responsibility for our monorepo and the "path to production" for over 50 engineers pushing over 75 commits a day with continuous deployment to production. This presents an exciting challenge where you can apply your expertise in helping teams ship fast and safe to meaningfully improve the productivity of our engineering team. This role also provides a unique opportunity to work on a multi-cloud and multi-region infrastructure that supports a global customer base.
About Hightouch
Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart.
Responsibilities
- Own the build: You’ll be the single-threaded owner for the build/test/deploy of our software and how each team fits into it
- Monorepo productivity: Detangle our build/test/deploy patterns so teams can move fast and not block each other. Investigate/implement a tool like turbo repo to speed builds and separate concerns
- Drive excellence in testing: We need to improve our top-down and team-level views into test coverage + support an ever-growing matrix of data sources, data destinations, and enrichment patterns. An excellent engineer in this role will be able to “hold up a mirror” to our dev teams, helping each team understand where they have gaps
- Multi-Region and Multi-Cloud: Supporting our multi-region and multi-cloud backend, including extending it to launch Hightouch on in new regions to support data residency requirements of our global customer base
- Operational excellence: Support an increase in our ability to catch issues before they reach production and respond quickly if they do
Qualifications
You are an engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers. You’re motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment.
You’ve driven significant improvement in the productivity of a 50+ person development team by making high-leverage changes to their build/test/deploy processes. While you likely have some infra chops, this is not an infra role: you have strong development fundamentals and are comfortable driving framework-level improvements across multiple teams. This could take several forms:
- You’ve been a member of a developer-productivity team/function for an outstanding development team
- You’ve organically become “the build person” at a fast-growing startup and helped bring order to chaos
- You’ve personally delivered code that has improved cross-team metrics related to developer productivity (e.g., DORA metrics, coverage, etc)
What’s in it for you?
The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $400,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window.
Interview Process
Our goal with the interview process is to balance speed with giving both parties opportunities to assess whether there is a strong mutual fit. We will ask you questions, but we want you to ask us questions! Our technical interviews focus on how you design systems because we believe this is the best way for us to see how you work and for you to see how we collaborate. We don’t ask you to write code to solve technical brainteasers that don’t appear in your day to day job.
- Apply: Curl jobapi.hightouchdata.com on port 13784 and have followed those instructions before applying. It'll only take a minute!
- Recruiter Screen: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
- System Design Screen: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end.
- Developer Productivity Skills Interview: We’ll dive into your experience making teams productive through a discussion of past projects and tooling you've used.
- Hiring Manager Interview: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles.
- System Design Interview: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical.
E-Verify Statement
Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.
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