Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
AI analytics platform for exploring data, building data apps, and collaborating with trusted context.
8 lead step-downs6 early lead departures
San Francisco, USA
About Hex
Hex Technologies Inc. operates Hex, an AI analytics platform combining natural-language self-serve, SQL and Python notebooks, interactive data apps, and AI agents in a governed workspace. Its shared context engine grounds answers in organizational data, business definitions, and knowledge.
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About the Role
You will join the infrastructure team that owns cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and observability across multi-tenant and single-tenant environments. You will pick up two or three projects with the team, own them start to finish, and improve foundational components that every engineer depends on.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call
- Strong Kubernetes operations
- Solid AWS fundamentals (EKS, RDS, VPC networking, IAM)
- Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
- Comfortable writing and reading application code
- Clear writing of design docs and runbooks
- Depth in at least one of networking, databases or deployment systems
Responsibilities
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed, cost and flexibility
- Automate setup, teardown, partial teardown and updates for single-tenant stacks
- Improve performance, migrations and capacity of the multi-tenant Postgres production database
- Improve infrastructure spend visibility and reduce cost
- Strengthen workload and container isolation and support compliance work
- Build customer-facing infrastructure capabilities such as private connectivity and customer defined networking
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible paid time off