Role Summary

Our mission at HubSpot is to help millions of organizations grow better. As VP, Infrastructure Engineering, you'll shape the platforms that make that mission possible by enabling every engineering team to build, deploy, and operate software at scale.

You'll lead an Infrastructure Engineering organization responsible for the cloud platforms, developer experience, data infrastructure, reliability, observability, and engineering productivity capabilities that power HubSpot's products. Reporting to senior engineering leadership, you'll be responsible for defining how infrastructure engineering evolves in an AI-first software company. This is a transformational leadership opportunity to influence HubSpot's technical strategy, accelerate engineering velocity, and help hundreds of engineers deliver remarkable experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

Team Overview

The Infrastructure Engineering organization provides the shared platforms, services, and tooling that every HubSpot product team depends on. From cloud infrastructure and developer platforms to data infrastructure, reliability engineering, observability, and AI-enabled engineering productivity, the team enables product engineers to move faster while delivering secure, reliable, and scalable customer experiences.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute the long-term vision for Infrastructure Engineering, ensuring HubSpot's platforms continue to scale with our customers, products, and engineering organization.
• Lead and develop a high-performing organization of engineers, building leadership depth and succession across the organization.
• Drive the evolution of HubSpot's engineering platforms, including cloud infrastructure, platform as a service, data infrastructure, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Lead the transformation of Infrastructure Engineering for an AI-first future by identifying opportunities where AI fundamentally changes how software is built, operated, and supported.
• Accelerate global infrastructure expansion while ensuring platform reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and executive leadership to align infrastructure investments with company strategy and product priorities.
• Champion modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, operational excellence, and continuous improvements to platform reliability and developer experience.
• Drive adoption of scalable platform capabilities that improve engineering velocity while reducing operational complexity.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, inclusion, and customer focus across the Infrastructure Engineering organization.
• Build strategic relationships with key technology partners, including hyperscale cloud providers, to maximize long-term platform capabilities and business value.

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Significant executive engineering leadership experience leading large, multi-layer engineering organizations.
• Proven success building and scaling Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Platforms, or Cloud Platform organizations within modern cloud-native SaaS businesses.
• Experience operating highly available, globally distributed systems serving millions of users or customers at internet scale.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, developer platforms, reliability engineering, observability, infrastructure automation, and modern software delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to define long-term technical strategy while delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership to shape organizational strategy and technology investment decisions.
• Strong track record developing engineering leaders, building inclusive organizations, and creating high-performing teams.
• Excellent executive communication, organizational leadership, and cross-functional influencing skills.
• Passion for leveraging AI to transform engineering, infrastructure, operations, and the entire software lifecycle.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience operationalizing modern database technologies and large-scale data platforms.
• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms that significantly improve engineering productivity.
• Experience partnering strategically with AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
• Track record improving cloud efficiency and operational cost optimization at enterprise scale.
• Active participation in the broader engineering community through technical writing, speaking, or open-source contributions.