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Staff Software Engineer

Engineering

Remote - USA

879380


 

We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join a team working on a high-impact mission within the Objects Source of Truth Pillar at HubSpot. The Objects source of truth pillar is responsible for the core data stores for the HubSpot CRM. That’s a pretty big deal - a large percentage of teams are writing and reading data from our systems. We operate at a massive  scale - reads of our data are on the order of 10GB/sec and writes are 100MB/sec. Our system acts as a central database for all of HubSpot; our API traffic constitutes for about 1/5 of all HTTP traffic at HubSpot. We also manage a large number of business challenges that are unique to HubSpot's business domain. We have to deal with pretty much any scaling challenge you can imagine - from scaling our data stores to the limits and beyond to offloading bottlenecks on our team to other teams.

The main goal that we'd like to accomplish is to reduce the load on our critical HBase clusters. This is a very hard problem to solve and will require a lot of ingenuity to make happen. After that, we will likely want to migrate our system to a new DB technology. Figuring out which database to use is challenging in its own right, but doing the migration will be exceptionally tough.


As a Staff Engineer on this team at HubSpot, you’ll do many things— and you likely already have experience doing some of them in the past. We are looking for people who:

  • Experienced with large-scale, real-time data processing using technologies such as Kafka and storage systems such as HBase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Apache Pinot, and ClickHouse.
  • Have deep urgency and a desire to get things done. We are in a race against the natural increasing scale of our systems and want to get ahead of it.
  • Have a history of developing solutions to problems that have had an outsized impact on a large organization’s business goals.
  • Care deeply about reliability and complexity reduction.
  • Demonstrate pragmatic decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
  • Are capable of providing strategic direction for major projects, and then diving in and leading by example.
  • Regularly mentor and teach engineers in their areas of expertise.
  • Wish to stay hands-on in all technical aspects while leading by example through collaborations with cross-functional and internal stakeholders. 
  • Have a long track record of experience delivering high-value, high-impact, cross-team projects. Staff Engineers are one of the most senior individual contributors at HubSpot; they are leaders that continually strive to raise the bar for the engineering organization as a whole, and are expected to help drive the product vision forward via strong collaboration skills and hands-on coding (up to 80%) (Current backend tech stack is in Java)
  • Can guide teams beyond the status quo; we need engineers who lead us beyond what we have, and towards what we can build, while building a shared notion of how to get there.

Embodies our engineering team values


Cash compensation range: 227400-363800 USD Annually

 


Pay & Benefits

The cash compensation below includes base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are tailored to your skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.

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Annual Cash Compensation Range:
$227,400$363,800 USD

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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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.

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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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