Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Hex Technologies•New York, NY

4d•$215,000 - $270,000

About The Position

We're seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to join us as a technical leader who will shape the future of our platform architecture! You'll work directly with our engineering leadership to drive infrastructure strategy, mentor our growing team, and build systems that scale with our ambitious growth plans. We recently raised a Series C and are experiencing rapid growth not just in the number of customers and users, but also in the kinds of data workflows we can support with our kernel compute backend. This isn't a hands-off leadership role – you'll be deeply technical while providing strategic direction. We need someone who has strong opinions backed by experience and isn't afraid to make the hard decisions that come with rapid scaling.

Requirements

7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles
Deep expertise with AWS services (EC2, RDS, EKS, networking, security)
Production experience with Kubernetes orchestration and container management
Experience with database performance engineering - query optimization, execution plan analysis, and datastore selection for different workload patterns
Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
Solid understanding of application deployment and scaling
Knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks
Track record of leading technical initiatives in fast-growing companies
Strong opinions on engineering best practices with the flexibility to adapt
Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across organizations
Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid decision-making in a startup environment
Understanding of the unique challenges of scaling infrastructure during hypergrowth
Ability to balance technical debt with feature velocity
Experience with resource constraints and scrappy problem-solving

Nice To Haves

Advanced Kubernetes operators development and custom resource definitions
Linux kernel development or systems programming experience
Background with observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana)
Contributions to open source infrastructure projects
Experience with multi-region deployments and disaster recovery planning

Responsibilities

Define and execute our infrastructure roadmap across our multi-tenant and single-tenant stacks
Establish engineering standards, practices, and tooling across the infrastructure team
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure investments with business objectives
Lead deep database performance optimization and scaling strategies
Lead infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning initiatives
Architect and implement scalable solutions on our AWS/Kubernetes/PostgreSQL/Redis stack
Design container orchestration strategies with Kubernetes patterns and resource optimization
Design and build robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
Drive reliability engineering practices including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
Evaluate and integrate new technologies that enhance our platform capabilities
Mentor engineers and help grow their technical skills
Participate in hiring and building out the infrastructure team
Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
Lead technical design reviews and architecture discussions