Technical Lead II Security Privacy

About the team

The Security Privacy team builds and operates the services that help HubSpot understand protect and manage personally identifiable information (PII) across the entire platform. We own a suite of backend and frontend systems that automatically scan HubSpots codebase and infrastructure to catalog PII usage and ownership classify datasets enforce data protection standards and orchestrate GDPR deletion workflows when customers exercise their rights. Our tools make it straightforward for every engineering team at HubSpot to know what sensitive data they handle and to do the right thing with it.

We sit within the Security Automated Assurance group and partner closely with HubSpots Privacy Legal and Security organisations as well as product and infrastructure teams across the company.

About the role

A Technical Lead II is a playercoach responsible for leading the Security Privacy team. Youll be a highperforming engineer who:

• Owns the technical direction for privacy tooling and cosets product strategy as part of the TL/PM triad.
• Leads delivery of complex projects across data privacy PII management and data protection domains often working with other TLs to unblock crossteam work.
• Takes proactive ownership for your teams oncall health reliability and code quality.
• Grows the engineers around you and builds an inclusive hightrust team culture.

This is a handson leadership role: youll spend a large portion of your time designing systems writing code and reviewing changes while also providing technical guidance and coaching.

In this role youll get to

• Lead the Security Privacy team building services that catalog PII classify datasets enforce data protection standards and automate GDPR deletion workflows across HubSpot.
• Design and evolve distributed systems that scan HubSpots codebase and infrastructure to detect PII usage track dataset ownership and orchestrate privacyrelated actions at scale.
• Own reliability and oncall for the services your team runs including alerting incident response and continuous improvement of our data privacy pipelines.
• Collaborate with Privacy Legal and Security teams to translate data protection requirements and regulations into robust technical solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews pairing and thoughtful feedback raising the bar on engineering quality and execution.
• Shape the roadmap for how HubSpot manages and protects personal data at scale balancing longterm platform investments with nearterm regulatory and business needs.

Were looking for people who

• Are senior backend engineers who have already led small teams projects or technical areas and are ready for a broader leadership scope.
• Are comfortable designing and operating distributed systems (e.g. microservices message queues data pipelines) in production.
• 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 largescale data systems is a plus.
• Care deeply about reliability observability and operational excellence and have participated in or run oncall rotations before.
• Communicate clearly with engineers and nonengineers and enjoy working closely with product design and nontechnical partners in security and compliance.
• Value mentorship feedback and inclusion and want to help build a team where people from different backgrounds can do their best work.

Nice to have

• Experience in security compliance risk or privacy domains (e.g. SOX ISO 27001 SOC reports data protection) or strong interest in learning this space.
• Background building data or reporting platforms that integrate with thirdparty systems and internal data warehouses.
• Experience with Kafka eventdriven architectures or largescale data ingestion and processing.
• Prior work with auditors risk or GRC teams or building systems that support audits and regulatory requirements.

Why HubSpot

HubSpot engineers work in small autonomous teams with a high degree of ownership over what they ship and how they run it in production. We deploy frequently learn quickly from our customers and invest heavily in engineering excellence and developer Security Automated Assurance youll see a direct connection between the systems you build and HubSpots ability to earn and keep our customers trust at scale.