HubSpot

Principal Software Engineer

HubSpot
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12 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Define the architecture and evolution of distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging, and telemetry standards across hundreds of services.
  • Lead the technical strategy for tracing and understanding AI agents and ML-powered systems in production.
  • Architect high-cardinality, high-throughput telemetry pipelines and storage systems while balancing sampling, retention, fidelity, cost, and query latency.
  • Ship production code and lead initiatives from prototype through production at scale.
  • Design instrumentation APIs, libraries, and tooling that drive OpenTelemetry adoption and improve developer experience.
  • Define SLO/SLI, alerting, incident-response, automated remediation, and operational intelligence patterns.
  • Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams; influence technical strategy and mentor senior engineers and technical leads.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building observability or telemetry tooling and developer platforms for large internal engineering organizations.
  • Deep expertise in telemetry pipeline design, high-cardinality data, dynamic sampling, query latency, retention economics, and data fidelity.
  • Strong technical fluency with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing engines, metric backends, and large-scale log ingestion infrastructure.
  • Experience designing real-time telemetry triggers that support automated remediation, dynamic runbooks, or AI-assisted root-cause diagnosis across microservices environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture, deliver production systems hands-on, influence across teams, and mentor senior technical contributors.

Benefits

  • Annual cash compensation range is $313,800–$502,080 USD, including base salary, eligible commission, and annual bonus targets; some roles may also receive equity or overtime eligibility.
  • HubSpot offers benefits and perks, with flexibility to work remotely or from an office.
  • Engineering hires must attend a regional HubSpot office for in-person onboarding, with accommodations available for travel limitations or other needs.

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About HubSpot

10,000+ employees

HubSpot builds a cloud-based CRM platform with marketing automation, sales, customer service, content management, and operations tools for businesses, especially SMBs. It sells freemium and subscription SaaS plans with add-ons and a marketplace of integrations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the public company (NYSE: HUBS) reports serving more than 250,000 customers globally.

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