Technical Lead II - Security Privacy

Requirements

• 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 large-scale data systems is a plus.
• Care deeply about reliability, observability, and operational excellence, and have participated in or run on-call rotations before.
• Communicate clearly with engineers and non-engineers, and enjoy working closely with product, design, and non-technical 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.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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 HubSpot's codebase and infrastructure to detect PII usage, track dataset ownership, and orchestrate privacy-related actions at scale.
• Own reliability and on-call 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 long-term platform investments with near-term regulatory and business needs.

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 third-party systems and internal data warehouses.
• Experience with Kafka, event-driven architectures, or large-scale data ingestion and processing.
• Prior work with auditors, risk, or GRC teams, or building systems that support audits and regulatory requirements.

Perks and Benefits

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 experience. In Security Automated Assurance, you’ll see a direct connection between the systems you build and HubSpot’s ability to earn and keep our customers’ trust at scale.