Senior DevOps Engineer

HubSpot is an AI-powered customer platform designed to help organizations grow better. The Senior DevOps Engineer will design and operate the infrastructure that supports high-traffic, data-intensive marketing platforms, collaborating closely with developers and marketers to enhance delivery velocity and uphold security and performance standards.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure to support high-traffic, business-critical digital applications
• Proactively improve system reliability, availability, and performance through automation, observability, and continuous optimization
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Web Development, QA, and Product teams to align infrastructure decisions with business and delivery goals
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews, ensuring learnings are translated into systemic improvements
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that reduce friction and increase deployment confidence
• Establish and evolve infrastructure-as-code standards to ensure consistency, scalability, and long-term maintainability
• Identify opportunities to incorporate AI-assisted tooling into DevOps workflows and partner with leadership to measure its impact on reliability, delivery velocity, and cost efficiency
• Drive security, resiliency, and cost-awareness across environments
• Own medium-to-large infrastructure initiatives from design through production, including documentation and long-term support
• Contribute to sprint planning and backlog refinement within an Agile environment, ensuring work is prioritized and delivered effectively
• Contribute to roadmap planning by identifying infrastructure investments that improve reliability, scalability, and developer velocity
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and clearly communicate risks, impact, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Develop and maintain runbooks, architectural diagrams, and system documentation to support operational excellence
• Mentor engineers by sharing best practices in DevOps and cloud architecture

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused software engineering roles
• Significant experience operating production systems in at least one major public cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef)
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms
• Experience working with CDN, DNS, and edge security platforms (e.g., Cloudflare)
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Ability to troubleshoot complex system issues and drive them to resolution
• Ability to prioritize competing initiatives and manage work with minimal oversight
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
• Experience supporting large-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms
• Experience operating highly distributed, scalable systems in production environments
• Exposure to observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
• Familiarity with web technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering or operations tools to improve productivity or system reliability
• Experience with security best practices in cloud environments
• Exposure to cost optimization strategies in high-growth systems
• Prior experience mentoring or leading technical initiatives