Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About this role

Own and improve foundational infrastructure that supports Hex’s multi-tenant platform and single-tenant customer environments. The role focuses on projects that improve engineering velocity, reliability, security, and infrastructure cost.

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, teardown, and updates for single-tenant environments.
• Improve PostgreSQL performance, migrations, and capacity at scale.
• Increase infrastructure cost visibility and reduce spend.
• Strengthen workload and container isolation and support compliance efforts.
• Build customer-facing infrastructure features, including private connectivity and customer-defined networking.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call experience.
• 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 read and write application code to modify pipelines, controllers, or services.
• Can independently turn ambiguous problems into shippable projects.
• Writes clear design documents and runbooks.

Nice to have

• Depth in networking, including VPC design, PrivateLink, peering, DNS, TLS, and certificate management.
• Depth in PostgreSQL scaling, replication, tuning, connection pooling, upgrades, or migrations under load.
• Experience owning CI/CD platforms, build performance, release systems, or artifact management.

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible paid time off