Software Engineer, Developer Velocity

ABOUT HEX

Hex is growing our team of builders on a mission to make everyone a data person. Our platform solves key pain points with today’s data and analytics tooling, and empowers anyone to explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context. Thousands of customers like Ramp https://hex.tech/customers/ramp/, Figma https://hex.tech/customers/figma/, Stubhub https://hex.tech/customers/stubhub/, Anthropic, and Gamma love Hex https://www.g2.com/products/hex-tech-hex/reviews for our beautiful UI, agentic superpowers, and boundless flexibility.

Hex has raised over $100M from leading investors like Sequoia, a16z, Snowflake and Amplify. With office hubs in San Francisco and New York, as well as remote team members throughout the US and UK, we’re a high-agency team that ships fast and has fun doing it. Check out our Intro to Hex video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXsnrNlavk and employee handbook https://www.notion.so/hexhq/Hex-Handbook-9fff0d42860e4f70815c599e0d1664d6 to learn more about what it’s like to work at Hex.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Hex is an AI native company and we are constantly playing with the latest models and tools. We are looking for a new team member to help us drive our developer tooling and systems to the cutting edge.

This role has two equally important halves. First, the classic developer-productivity foundation: fast builds, reliable CI/CD, reproducible dev environments, building the systems the whole engineering organization depends on every day. Second, the AI layer on top of it: as coding agents get more capable, the hard problems move beyond writing code to context, environments, validation, and safe integration into production. You'll build the systems that let coding agents operate with deep awareness of Hex's codebase, infrastructure, and development lifecycle.

This is role that is intended to drive impact organization-wide. You'll partner with teams across engineering to understand how they work, build the shared systems that raise everyone's velocity, and establish the standards and guardrails that keep a fast-moving org safe. Success looks like shipping tools, measuring it, and teams adopting what you build.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Developer-productivity foundation - Own the internal developer platform end to end. Architecture, build, rollout, operation, and measurement. - Invest in build and CI/CD. Monorepo build tooling and local/remote caching, CI pipelines, merge queues, fast and reliable test suites, and safe rollout/deploy mechanics for the whole org. - Build great dev environments. Collaborate across teams to find the best patterns. Fast local builds and caching, reproducible multi-platform cloud development environments. - Raise org-wide velocity. Establish metrics and dashboards to help the teams steer the ship and partner with teams across engineering to find and remove the biggest bottlenecks. Examples such as cycle time, review latency, and change failure rate.

AI developer experience

- Build the agent context layer. Repo-level context infrastructure (agent guidance conventions, architecture and domain context), and shared skills/subagents/hooks that make agents competent in Hex's codebase.

- Evaluate and integrate new third-party coding tools (the next Claude Code, the next Cursor Cloud Agent and future tools) and make them work against our codebase and other org tools (Slack, Notion, Linear, etc).

- Across both - Drive adoption through developer experience. Set up good defaults, clear docs, low friction and embed with teams to generalize their wins into shared platform capabilities. - Own the safety layer. Work with our teams to create permissions, secrets handling and audit trails.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 5+ years in developer productivity, build/release engineering, or internal platforms. Experience building the tools and systems the whole engineering org depends on daily. This is the core of the…