Engineering Lead

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About the Team

HubSpot is on a mission to help millions of organizations grow better. Our Infrastructure Org lays the technical foundation for this mission by building secure reliable performant and cost-effective systems that make it easy for feature teams to quickly build high-quality products. The Infrastructure Org is currently looking for an experienced Engineering Lead or hands on Engineering Manager to head our Edge team. Infra Edge team is responsible for developing and operating HubSpots load balancing and CDN infrastructure. Our systems are used by 200 internal engineering teams and serve billions of requests from over 200000 customers in more than 100 countries daily. They are paramount to HubSpots continued success and the success of our customers.

About the Role

As an Engineering Lead you will lead a team of 6 engineers. We are looking for a skilled passionate and empathetic leader who is deeply connected to the technical details and thrives on building large-scale highly performant distributed systems in a collaborative manner. You will balance your time between hands-on technical contributions (50-60%) and technical/people leadership. Your responsibilities include:

• Guiding the design development and operation of systems and system components including hands-on code contributions.
• People management including hiring promotions and performance management.
• Technical mentorship and coaching for growth.

Teams in HubSpot are intentionally kept small and nimble to maximize ownership eliminate scale challenges and communication overhead. This means less time in meetings and more time working on technical challenges even as engineers and managers progress in their careers.

For this position we are looking for:

• An Engineering Lead or Engineering Manager with at least 2 years of experience in role including hiring developing and promoting engineers..
• A track record of of delivering complex performant reliable and scalable distributed systems and/or infrastructure in a Cloud environment (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) from design to large-scale operations.
• Proficiency in Java C# Go C or Rust with Java preferred.
• Experience with CDNs (e.g. Cloudflare CloudFront) Load Balancers (e.g. NGINX Envoy) and Service Mesh is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working across multiple teams.
• An understanding of how to foster Diversity Inclusion and Belonging.
• The ability to translate business requirements into technical deliverables. Experience in building company internal platforms and collaborating with feature teams is a plus.

Our tech stack is Java but regardless of your background we hire talented people who love to learn. If youre a hands-on engineering leader who is passionate about both technology and people management lets talk.