Staff Backend Engineer — Compute & Performance Architect (Remote)

Hex; New York (NY); On-site; USD 221,250 - 348,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Hex is seeking a Staff or Principal-level software engineer to join our Compute team. This backend-focused role centers on computation, performance, data systems design, and architecture—driving decisions that shape Hex’s compute platform for years to come, while staying hands-on in code.

You will evolve the execution graph, optimize parallelism and caching, instrument complex systems, and collaborate to build new platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience with focus on computation, performance, and systems architecture.
• Experience with parallel execution strategies, caching, and remote data warehouse computation tradeoffs.
• Proven track record solving large-scale systems design problems and mentoring teammates.
• Ability to translate abstract problems into concrete, milestone-driven technical roadmaps.
• Strong communication skills and experience leading a remote-first team.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the execution architecture of the compute platform, enabling faster and smarter execution.
• Drive parallel execution strategies and caching to reduce latency and external round trips.
• Instrument systems to surface performance issues for clearer time-traceability.
• Collaborate across engineering and product to enable new platform capabilities, including internal query language support.
• Author and review technical proposals; mentor engineers on ambitious designs.
• Roadmap long-term designs with milestones across quarters.

Skills

Backend engineering

Parallel execution

Performance optimization

Data systems design

Python

TypeScript

Strong communicator

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Postgres

Redis

AWS

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Hex is seeking a Staff or Principal-level software engineer to join our Compute team. This backend-focused role centers on computation, performance, data systems design, and architecture—driving decisions that shape Hex’s compute platform for years to come, while staying hands-on in code.

You will evolve the execution graph, optimize parallelism and caching, instrument complex systems, and collaborate to build new platform capabilities.