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HubSpot · 2 weeks ago

Principal Software Engineer- Data Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$314K/yr - $502K/yr

HubSpot is an AI-powered customer platform that connects marketing, sales, and service. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape the future of their Data Platform, influencing technical direction and driving high-impact initiatives across various domains.

AnalyticsCopywritingMarketingSaaSSocial Media

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Helps influence/drive technical direction across the entire Data Platform product line, not just one group or team

You’ll work across ingestion, processing, storage, sync, reliability, and intelligence surfaces

You ship software- not just prototypes

We expect deep technical engagement in the systems you influence, including ownership of large, high-impact initiatives

You’ve operated and evolved large-scale, fault-tolerant, cost-efficient systems

You’re comfortable scaling across billions of events per day and guiding design around availability, throughput, and latency

You define and drive reusable platform patterns across ingestion, processing, quality, sync, and observability

You align platform architecture with HubSpot’s CRM, AI/ML, and extensibility goals, ensuring infrastructure enables product evolution- not constrains it

You’re recognized as a mentor and multiplier

Others seek your input for design reviews, incident postmortems, and architectural bets

You partner with product and engineering leadership to define strategy, scope opportunities, and execute for product-line-wide outcomes

You move into unfamiliar areas quickly and make meaningful contributions- whether it’s a new tech stack, domain model, or organizational challenge

You elevate HubSpot’s brand, help attract and retain senior talent, and share your knowledge across the company

Qualification

Distributed systems expertiseArchitectural leadershipTechnical mentorshipAI/ML infrastructurePlatform architecture alignmentCross-functional influenceRapid domain fluencyInternalExternal impact

Required

Proven track record of delivering projects with significant product-line or company-level impact, often in ambiguous or complex technical environments

Ability to move across domains with ease and challenge existing assumptions

Deep architectural thinking and strong execution skills

Experience in platform-scale ownership and influencing technical direction across a product line

Hands-on experience as a high-leverage contributor who ships software, not just prototypes

Expertise in distributed systems, including operating and evolving large-scale, fault-tolerant, cost-efficient systems

Comfortable scaling across billions of events per day and guiding design around availability, throughput, and latency

Ability to define and drive reusable platform patterns across ingestion, processing, quality, sync, and observability

Alignment of platform architecture with CRM, AI/ML, and extensibility goals

Recognized as a mentor and multiplier in technical mentorship and leadership

Ability to partner with product and engineering leadership to define strategy and execute for product-line-wide outcomes

Rapid domain fluency and ability to make meaningful contributions in unfamiliar areas

Ability to elevate HubSpot's brand and help attract and retain senior talent

Benefits

Participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs)

Eligible for overtime pay

Company

HubSpot

Glassdoor4.0

HubSpot develops cloud-based, inbound marketing software that allows businesses to transform the way that they market online.

Founded in 2006

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

5001-10000 employees

http://www.hubspot.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (148)

2024 (125)

2023 (101)

2022 (107)

2021 (43)

2020 (33)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$100.5M

Key Investors

Scale Venture PartnersMatrixGeneral Catalyst

2014-10-10IPO

2012-11-05Series E· $35M

2011-03-08Series D· $32M

Leadership Team

Yamini Rangan

Chief Executive Officer

Dharmesh Shah

Founder and CTO

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