Principal and Distinguished Engineer

About the Role HubSpot is growing its Principal and Distinguished Engineering community to tackle complex technical challenges at massive scale. This role focuses on leading across distributed systems, AI-powered tooling, and scalable platform investments to help millions of customers grow in the age of AI. What You'll Do

• Work on distributed systems that process billions of API calls, messages, and events per day.
• Build machine learning systems powering intelligent automation, recommendations, and personalization.
• Develop innovative generative AI assistants, agents, and workflows to power the future of business.
• Scale frontend platforms at pace with high performance, accessibility, and extensibility.
• Create developer experience platforms — CI/CD, testing infrastructure, internal tooling.
• Build data infrastructure for real-time analytics and large-scale data processing.
• Architect global, multi-region cloud systems deployed across AWS and other providers.
• Tackle security, reliability, and scaling challenges at every layer of the stack. What We're Looking For
• Passion for elegant code, distributed systems, and building products that millions depend on.
• Demonstrated ability to own end-to-end delivery with a bias for action and fast iteration.
• Leadership in engineering roles; we hire and promote technical engineering leaders who can ship and mentor.
• Ability to collaborate across product, UX, and engineering teams and to drive cross-team initiatives.
• Comfort with AI tooling, unified infrastructure, and building scalable platforms.
• On-call ownership mindset and willingness to ship in short cycles. Nice to Have
• Experience with tooling for build/deploy, observability, and developer productivity.
• Familiarity with AI tooling, data infrastructure, and large-scale analytics.
• Experience deploying global, multi-region cloud systems. Compensation & Benefits
• Salary and benefits not disclosed in this posting; HubSpot offers flexible work arrangements and a culture focused on continuous learning and impact.