[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @HubSpot

Role Description

We’re seeking a Principal Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the technical future of Notetaker. This role sits at the intersection of real-time systems, distributed infrastructure, and applied AI.

• Define how live audio/video, transcription, and GenAI-powered insights come together into a reliable, low-latency, production system.
• Help the team move fast without breaking trust—shipping features that feel magical to users while remaining robust under real-world conditions.

Key Expectations

• Architect real-time conversation systems:
  • Define patterns for ingesting, processing, and storing live audio and video data with high accuracy and low latency.
• Hands-on, high-impact delivery:
  • Write production code, lead major initiatives, and own critical systems end-to-end.
• GenAI in the loop:
  • Shape how transcription, summarization, and conversation intelligence models integrate into live and post-call workflows.
• Reliability and trust at scale:
  • Drive decisions around observability, correctness, privacy, and failure modes in non-deterministic systems.
• Product and UX sensitivity:
  • Partner with Product and Design to ensure technical decisions support clarity, usefulness, and user trust.
• Cross-functional influence:
  • Work closely with Calendar, Calling, CRM, and AI teams to align on shared primitives and patterns.
• Org-level multiplier:
  • Mentor senior engineers, influence architectural standards, and help the org build better real-time and AI-powered systems.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building distributed systems with real-time or near-real-time constraints.
• Familiarity with audio/video pipelines, streaming systems, or event-driven architectures.
• Practical experience applying GenAI to user-facing products, especially summarization, classification, or insight generation.
• Strong judgment around tradeoffs between speed, quality, cost, and correctness.
• A bias for action: you prefer working systems over perfect abstractions, and you stay hands-on through delivery.

Pay & Benefits

• Annual Cash Compensation Range: $266,200 — $425,900 USD
• Base salary, on-target commission for eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan.
• Some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Individual compensation packages are tailored to your skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.