Helga Dobrin holds a university law degree.

She began her career in 2000 as a lawyer at the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for European Affairs. She was a trainee judge from 2002 to 2003. From 2004 she worked as a senior judicial adviser at the District Court in Kranj and then at the District State Prosecutor's Office in Kranj.

In October 2007, she was appointed Assistant District State Prosecutor at the District State Prosecutor's Office in Kranj. In October 2011, she was appointed District State Prosecutor at the District State Prosecutor's Office in Kranj.

Until her appointment to the position of State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, she was Higher State Prosecutor - Deputy Head of the Kranj District State Prosecutor's Office.