Staff Software Engineer (Backend Platform)

Staff Software Engineer Backend Platform

Company

Hex

Conditions

6 days agoLeadSalary: 221K - 349KNYC or Remote (US) Remote Backend Jobs by Hex

Hex AI analytics workspace where anyone can explore data with natural language, code, or no-code surfaces on trusted, governed context. Company intelligence Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026 San Francisco, CA About Hex Hex is an AI-native analytics workspace combining collaborative SQL/Python notebooks, interactive data apps, and AI agents (Notebook Agent, Context Studio) that answer data questions against governed semantic models. Founded in 2020 by Palantir alumni, Hex raised $70M (2025) and serves enterprise data teams including Reddit. View jobs by Hex

Skills

Algorithms Aws Backend Engineering Caching Cloud Infrastructure Computation Database Data Structure Data Warehouse Docker Graphql Helm Kubernetes Parallel Execution Performance Postgres Python React Redis Storage Systems Architecture Terraform Typescript

Candidate Availability

Onsite · NYC · Preferred Remote · New York City · Required Remote · United States · Required Remote · Required Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will evolve the execution architecture for user notebooks, build compute components, drive parallel execution and caching strategies, diagnose performance issues, shape platform capabilities, author technical proposals, mentor engineers, and roadmap long-term designs while remaining hands-on in the codebase.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience
• Experience with computation, performance, database and storage optimization, and systems architecture
• Experience with parallel execution and caching strategies
• Experience solving large-scale systems design problems
• Python and/or TypeScript
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure is preferred
• Some frontend experience is preferred

Responsibilities

• Evolve the graph-based execution architecture for user notebooks
• Build compute components that support faster and smarter execution
• Drive parallel execution and caching strategies
• Instrument systems to diagnose performance problems
• Build platform capabilities such as an internal query language
• Author and review technical proposals
• Mentor engineers
• Propose and roadmap long-term designs

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible paid time off

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