Principal AI‑Driven Release Engineer

Nashville Public Radio; Dublin; On-site; EUR 229,000 - 367,000; Full time

Job summary

HubSpot is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in the Developer Acceleration group to shape the technical future of release engineering at scale. You will blend large-scale distributed systems with agentic AI, deploying AI-enabled QA and autonomous decisions across the pipeline.

As a hands-on leader, you will stay close to code, drive end-to-end initiatives, and mentor teams while defining architecture and platform direction for high-scale delivery.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building large-scale distributed systems, particularly CI/CD and release pipelines.
• Strong architectural instincts with a bias toward simplicity, clarity, and long-term platform leverage.
• Experience operating at hyperscaler or platform-provider scale.
• Track record of owning and delivering complex, cross-team technical initiatives with org-wide impact.
• Hands-on mindset: you lead by building, debugging, reviewing, and shipping.

Responsibilities

• Own the future of HubSpot's release engineering platform and its direction.
• Drive architecture across pipeline design, test infra, deployment, and ergonomics.
• Define next-gen delivery platform beyond the current one.
• Write production code regularly and lead initiatives from idea to rollout.
• Design AI-powered QA agents that run on every deploy to reduce risk.

Skills

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Release engineering

Architectural instincts

Hands-on coding

Hyperscaler scale

Job description

HubSpot is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in the Developer Acceleration group to shape the technical future of release engineering at scale. You will blend large-scale distributed systems with agentic AI, deploying AI-enabled QA and autonomous decisions across the pipeline.

As a hands-on leader, you will stay close to code, drive end-to-end initiatives, and mentor teams while defining architecture and platform direction for high-scale delivery.