Infrastructure Engineer
HexRemoteposted 12h ago
- PayUSD / yr
- $214k – 285k
- Where
- Remote (US)
- Posted
- Oct 20
- 12 hours ago
- Type
- Full-time
- Setup
- Remote
At a glance
Own foundational infrastructure projects across Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, databases, security, and customer-facing platform capabilities, improving how quickly Hex’s engineering organization ships.
Summarized by AI from the original posting
What you'll do
- Own infrastructure projects from start to finish
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed, cost, and flexibility
- Improve single-tenant stack lifecycle management
- Manage Postgres performance, migrations, and capacity at scale
- Improve infrastructure spend visibility and reduce costs
- Strengthen workload and container isolation and compliance
- Build customer-facing infrastructure capabilities
- Operate cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability across multi-tenant and single-tenant environments
Requirements
- 015+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call
- 02Strong Kubernetes operations
- 03Solid AWS fundamentals
- 04Experience with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
- 05Ability to write and read application code
- 06Ability to independently turn ambiguous problems into shippable solutions
- 07Clear technical writing skills
- 08Depth in networking, databases, or deployment systems
Perks
Skills
Full description
Hex is growing our team of builders on a mission to make everyone a data person. Our platform solves key pain points with today’s data and analytics tooling, and empowers anyone to explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context. Thousands of customers like Ramp, Figma, Stubhub, Anthropic, and Gamma love Hex for our beautiful UI, agentic superpowers, and boundless flexibility.
Hex has raised over $100M from leading investors like Sequoia, a16z, Snowflake and Amplify. With office hubs in San Francisco and New York, as well as remote team members throughout the US and UK, we’re a high-agency team that ships fast and has fun doing it. Check out our Intro to Hex video and employee handbook to learn more about what it’s like to work at Hex.
About the roleHex's infrastructure team owns all of our cloud infrastructure (compute, networking, datastores) along with CI/CD and observability, across a multi-tenant platform and single-tenant environments. Every engineer at Hex depends on what the infrastructure team builds.
We're growing in customers, in users, and in the kinds of data workflows our workload compute backend has to support. That growth has opened up a set of projects that would meaningfully change how fast the rest of engineering ships, and we're hiring to take them on.
We're looking for someone who will pick up one of those projects, own it start to finish, and leave it better than they found it. Bring your opinions, including the ones that disagree with ours. Infrastructure tooling is changing quickly right now, and we want someone who's paying attention to that as we improve the foundational components that power Hex.
What you will doYour first few months, we'll pick two or three of these together based on where you're strongest and where we're looking to invest:
CI/CD. Hex’s CI/CD pipelines need a glow-up: optimizing for speed, cost, and providing more flexibility.
Stack lifecycle. Setup, teardown, partial teardown, and updates for single-tenant stacks, today too much of this is manual and runs through our team.
Postgres at scale. Performance, migrations, and capacity for our multi-tenant production database.
Cost. Infrastructure spend visibility and reduction.
Security posture. Workload and container isolation, plus compliance work as we move upmarket.
Platform features. Customer-facing infrastructure capabilities: private connectivity, customer defined networking, and making single-tenant deployments easier to operate.
5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call
You make the people around you better, whether or not you've had the title
Strong Kubernetes operations: you can reason about scheduling, networking, and failure modes, not just apply manifests
Solid AWS fundamentals (EKS, RDS, VPC networking, IAM)
Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
Comfortable writing and reading enough application code to change a pipeline, a controller, or a service
You can take a vague, long-standing problem and turn it into something shippable without waiting to be told how
You write clearly, design docs and runbooks that engineers outside infra can follow
Plus depth in at least one of
Networking — VPC design, private connectivity (PrivateLink, peering), DNS, TLS and certificate management, agentic sandboxing
Databases — Postgres at scale: replication, tuning, connection pooling, major version upgrades, migrations under load
Deployment systems — CI/CD platform ownership, build performance and cost, release and artifact management
Cloud: AWS (EKS, RDS, ElastiCache)
Databases: PostgreSQL (RDS), Redis, LanceDB, DynamoDB, MSK
Languages: TypeScript (Node.js), Python, Rust, Go
Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform
Monitoring: Datadog
The salary range for this role is: $214,000 - $285,000
In addition to our unique culture, Hex proudly offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched salary & equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible paid time off.
The salary range shown may be a reflection of additional factors such as geographical location and skill ranges/levels we’re open to. Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process, taking into account factors like leaving room for growth, internal fairness & parity, your demonstrated skills, and the depth of your experience. Our Recruiting team will be able to provide more details during the interview process.
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Compensation: $214K - $285K