Senior Infrastructure Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Hex; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-bench salary & equity

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Hex's infrastructure team owns all cloud infrastructure (compute, networking, datastores) and CI/CD across a multi-tenant platform and single-tenant environments. We’re hiring to take ownership of projects end-to-end, bring strong opinions, and help evolve the foundations powering Hex.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, with deep Kubernetes operations, solid AWS fundamentals, and infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform).

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call.
• Ability to improve and ship infrastructure with minimal guidance.
• Strong Kubernetes operations: scheduling, networking, failure modes.
• Solid AWS fundamentals (EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM).
• Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform.
• Comfort writing and reading enough application code to change a pipeline or service.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship projects from start to finish.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for speed, cost, and flexibility.
• Manage stack lifecycle for multi-tenant environments.
• Scale Postgres production databases and migrations.
• Improve cost visibility and reduction in infra spend.
• Strengthen security posture with workload isolation and compliance.
• Develop platform features like private connectivity and custom networking.

Skills

Production infra

Kubernetes operations

AWS fundamentals

Infrastructure as code

Coding in pipelines

Platform security

Communication & docs

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Datadog

Node.js

AWS (EKS/RDS)

Job description

Hex's infrastructure team owns all cloud infrastructure (compute, networking, datastores) and CI/CD across a multi-tenant platform and single-tenant environments. We’re hiring to take ownership of projects end-to-end, bring strong opinions, and help evolve the foundations powering Hex.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, with deep Kubernetes operations, solid AWS fundamentals, and infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform).