Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About this role

Own infrastructure projects that improve how Hex engineers build, deploy, and operate a growing multi-tenant data platform. Work across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, databases, security, cost management, and customer-facing deployment capabilities.

About the company

Hex is a collaborative analytics notebook platform for SQL and Python workflows. It helps data teams explore data, build analyses, and share interactive results with stakeholders.

Stack

What you'll do

• Improve CI/CD pipeline speed, cost, and flexibility
• Automate setup, updates, and teardown for single-tenant stacks
• Improve performance, migrations, and capacity for production PostgreSQL
• Increase infrastructure cost visibility and reduce spend
• Strengthen workload and container isolation and support compliance work
• Build customer infrastructure features such as private connectivity and customer-defined networking

What we're looking for

• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call
• Strong Kubernetes operations knowledge, including scheduling, networking, and failure modes
• Solid AWS fundamentals, including EKS, RDS, VPC networking, and IAM
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally with Terraform
• Able to write and understand application code for pipelines, controllers, or services
• Can independently turn ambiguous, long-standing problems into shippable work
• Writes clear design documents and runbooks for engineers outside infrastructure

Nice to have

• Depth in networking, including VPC design, PrivateLink, peering, DNS, TLS, or certificate management
• Depth in PostgreSQL at scale, including replication, tuning, connection pooling, upgrades, or migrations under load
• Experience owning CI/CD platforms, build performance, costs, releases, or artifact management

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible paid time off