Hex · 1 day ago
Infra Engineer, Observability Whisperer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expHex Technologies is a company that builds products people genuinely love, and they are seeking an Infra Engineer with a focus on observability. The role involves managing and reducing costs associated with Datadog by optimizing metrics, logs, and performance monitoring while promoting cost-aware engineering practices across the organization.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataBusiness IntelligenceDatabaseSoftware
Responsibilities
Mitigation of myriad metrics: Hunt down and decommission all high-cardinality custom metrics that no one actually uses, replacing them with sane, aggregated alternatives, or build a system that insulates us from this risk area entirely
Liberation from legions of logs: Audit the log ingestion for every service. You'll work with engineering teams to tune logging levels, apply intelligent sampling and exclusion filters at the source (i.e., the agent), and implement better categorization and archiving strategies
Analysis of Performance Monitoring (APM): Analyze our APM and trace ingestion and ensure it’s smartly used. You'll champion distributed tracing strategies that are both informative and economical
Standardization: Use automation to enforce cost-saving policies across our entire fleet, ensuring developers can't accidentally check in a new, expensive monitoring configuration
Evangelization: Be the champion for cost-aware engineering. Create internal documentation, run 'Datadog Dojo' workshops, and embed the mindset of 'monitor what matters' across the entire engineering organization
Qualification
Required
3+ years as an Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineer
Expert-level, obsessive knowledge of Datadog's pricing model and platform architecture
Deep proficiency with AWS and Kubernetes
Strong programming skills for infrastructure automation
The courage to tell a founder or principal engineer that their favorite metric is financially irresponsible
Preferred
Experience with other monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Splunk) and a view on whether we should be using any of them to displace some Datadog functionality
Experience implementing OpenTelemetry standards and agents for cost-effective vendor neutrality
A proven track record of actually reducing cloud costs, not just talking about it
Benefits
Market-benched salary & equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible paid time off
Company
Hex
Hex is changing how people use data by building a collaborative, shareable analytics workspace.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$171.5MKey Investors
avraSequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2025-05-28Series C· $70M
2023-03-23Series Unknown· $28M
2022-03-22Series B· $52M
Leadership Team
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Barry McCardel
Co-Founder and CEO
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