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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.\nHex 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.\nAbout the role\nHex'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. 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Setup, teardown, partial teardown, and updates for single-tenant stacks, today too much of this is manual and runs through our team.\n\nPostgres at scale. Performance, migrations, and capacity for our multi-tenant production database.\n\nCost. Infrastructure spend visibility and reduction.\n\nSecurity posture. Workload and container isolation, plus compliance work as we move upmarket.\n\nPlatform features. Customer-facing infrastructure capabilities: private connectivity, customer defined networking, and making single-tenant deployments easier to operate.\n\nAbout You\n5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call\n\nYou make the people around you better, whether or not you've had the title\n\nStrong Kubernetes operations: you can reason about scheduling, networking, and failure modes, not just apply manifests\n\nSolid AWS fundamentals (EKS, RDS, VPC networking, IAM)\n\nInfrastructure as code, ideally Terraform\n\nComfortable writing and reading enough application code to change a pipeline, a controller, or a service\n\nYou can take a vague, long-standing problem and turn it into something shippable without waiting to be told how\n\nYou write clearly, design docs and runbooks that engineers outside infra can follow\n\nPlus depth in at least one of\nNetworking - VPC design, private connectivity (PrivateLink, peering), DNS, TLS and certificate management, agentic sandboxing\n\nDatabases - Postgres at scale: replication, tuning, connection pooling, major version upgrades, migrations under load\n\nDeployment systems - CI/CD platform ownership, build performance and cost, release and artifact management\n\nOur stack\nCloud: AWS (EKS, RDS, ElastiCache)\n\nDatabases: PostgreSQL (RDS), Redis, LanceDB, DynamoDB, MSK\n\nLanguages: TypeScript (Node.js), Python, Rust, Go\n\nInfrastructure-as-code: Terraform\n\nMonitoring: Datadog\n\nThe salary range for this role is: $214,000 - $285,000\nIn 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.\nThe salary range shown may be a reflection of additional factors such as geographical location and skill ranges/levels we’re open to. 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