Staff Software Engineer

POS-4913

We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join a team working on a high-impact mission on the Release Core team, within the Release Engineering product line at HubSpot. At HubSpot, our software platform comprises thousands of services, workers, and jobs, spanning over thousands of repos. Our Release Core team works to deploy these systems across a common infrastructure; we define the platform and patterns that these applications use to build, test, and deploy their code.

Release Engineering is a group of ~30 engineers who work to build the CI and CD infrastructure for Hubspot’s 2,000+ product engineers. We safely release over 100,000 deployments per day across 5 regions; we handle over 300 concurrent deployments at any given moment across 22,000 deployable artifacts. We bring a customer-centric approach to this space, and we care deeply about solving for customer pain points, and building platforms with a delightful user experience. 

As a Staff Engineer on the Release Core 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:

• Have a customer-centric approach to building platform software; we need engineers who care about creating delightful experiences that solve for our customers use cases
• Have experience building modern, scalable CI and CD systems; including CD best practices implemented scale (e.g. deployment validation, blue green deploys, canaries, automated rollback)
• Have deep experience with Kubernetes, Static Routing Patterns (e.g. CDN, Load Balancing, S3 Buckets), and best practices around container orchestration
• Are thoughtful and pragmatic - who realize that how we work is as important as what we accomplish
• Have a long track record of delivering high-value, high-impact, cross-team projects. Staff Engineers are one of the most senior individual contributors at HubSpot; they are leaders who 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.
• Have a thirst for technical challenges implemented within secure, compliant systems. We leverage technologies such as Java, HBase, Vitess (MySQL), Kafka, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and Dropwizard. We’re not necessarily looking for someone who is an expert in a specific technology, but someone who is well-versed in engineering principles and eager to leverage them when running toward the problems that we face. 
• Desire to stay hands-on in all technical aspects while leading by example through collaborations with cross-functional and internal stakeholders.
• Have a history of developing solutions to problems that have had an outsized impact on a large organization’s business goals.
• Provide strategic direction for major projects.
• Regularly mentor and teach engineers in their areas of expertise.
• Demonstrate pragmatic decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
• Exhibit an enthusiasm for building reliable, scalable systems.
• 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