Set and evolve the technical direction for privacy tooling, partnering closely with the team’s TL and PM.
Lead delivery of complex, multi-quarter initiatives across data privacy, PII management, and data protection domains, often coordinating work across multiple teams and technical areas.
Make high-impact architectural decisions, raising the bar for reliability, performance, and security in our systems.
Provide deep technical mentorship, helping other engineers grow their design, coding, and operational skills while contributing to an inclusive, high-trust team culture.
Lead design and implementation of services that catalog PII, classify datasets, enforce data protection standards, and automate GDPR deletion workflows across HubSpot.
Collaborate with Privacy, Legal, and Security teams to translate data protection requirements and regulations into robust, scalable technical solutions.
Drive technical roadmaps and long-term investments for how HubSpot manages and protects personal data, balancing foundational platform work with near-term regulatory and business needs.

Are tenured backend engineers with experience operating at staff-level scope: driving complex technical initiatives, influencing across teams, and providing deep technical leadership without direct people management.
Have strong knowledge of data governance concepts and practices (for example, data lineage, classification, retention, and access governance) and experience applying them in large-scale systems.
Are comfortable designing and operating distributed systems (e.g., microservices, message queues, data pipelines) in production environments.
Have strong experience with at least one JVM language (ideally Java) and relational databases (e.g., MySQL); experience with technologies like Kafka, asynchronous processing, or large-scale data systems is a plus.
Care deeply about reliability, observability, and operational excellence, and have participated in or helped run on-call rotations before.
Communicate clearly with engineers and non-engineers, and enjoy working closely with product, design, and non-technical partners in security, privacy, and compliance.
Value mentorship, feedback, and inclusion, and want to help build a team where people from different backgrounds can do their best work.

Staff Software Engineer

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