Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

This backend-heavy role focuses on computation, performance, data systems design, and systems architecture for Hex's Compute team. The engineer will remain hands-on while driving architectural decisions, technical designs, and platform evolution.

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.

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 required.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills.

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible paid time off