What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Software Engineer- Data Platform position at HubSpot and Careers?
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About the Team
The Data Platform product line builds the foundation for an AI-powered CRM that powers customer engagement and front-office workflows through unified, trustworthy, and real-time customer data.
We operate at a massive scale:
- Our core CRM platform processes billions of transactions daily.
- We manage petabyte-scale data systems.
- The platform is not a single database, but a full ecosystem of ingestion pipelines, storage layers, synchronization systems, AI/ML data infrastructure, and developer frameworks to power the next generation of intelligent, extensible CRM features.
About the Role
We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of this platform. This individual will have a proven track record of delivering projects with significant product-line or company-level impact, often in ambiguous or complex technical environments. They move across domains with ease, challenge existing assumptions, and redefine what's possible through deep architectural thinking and strong execution.
At HubSpot, Principal Engineers are not only technical strategists but builders: trusted with end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives. This engineer will help shape the technical direction across the entire Data Platform, comprising 180 people, influencing decisions that directly tie into HubSpot's broader CRM, extensibility, and AI/ML product strategy.
Key Expectations
- Platform-scale ownership: 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.
- Hands-on, high-leverage contributor: You ship software- not just prototypes. We expect deep technical engagement in the systems you influence, including ownership of large, high-impact initiatives.
- Distributed systems expertise: 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.
- Architectural leadership: You define and drive reusable platform patterns across ingestion, processing, quality, sync, and observability.
- Strategy alignment: You align platform architecture with HubSpot's CRM, AI/ML, and extensibility goals, ensuring infrastructure enables product evolution- not constrains it.
- Technical mentorship & leadership: You're recognized as a mentor and multiplier. Others seek your input for design reviews, incident postmortems, and architectural bets.
- Cross-functional influence: You partner with product and engineering leadership to define strategy, scope opportunities, and execute for product-line-wide outcomes.
- Rapid domain fluency: You move into unfamiliar areas quickly and make meaningful contributions- whether it's a new tech stack, domain model, or organizational challenge.
- Internal and external impact: You elevate HubSpot's brand, help attract and retain senior talent, and share your knowledge across the company.
We know the confidence gap and impostor syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply — we'd love to hear from you.
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About HubSpot
HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software, integrations, and resources customers need to connect marketing, sales, and service. HubSpot's connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers.
At HubSpot, bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast, stay customer-obsessed, and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer, Be Bold, Learn Fast, Align, Adapt & Go!, and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work, lead, and grow.
We're building a company where people can do their best work. We focus on brilliant work, not badge swipes. By combining clarity, ownership, and trust, we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress. And we know that when our employees grow, our customers do too.
Recognized globally for our award-winning culture by Comparably, Glassdoor, Fortune, and more, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with employees and offices around the world.
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