Compute Engineering Lead

Skip to main content📊 AI analytics use case: how Mercor unlocked $100M in revenue🤯  Generative data apps: Gorgeous, interactive dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt📖 State of Data Teams 2026 discover key insights from data leaders 🙏 It's just "Hex"! Not "HEX" or "Hex dot tech"📊 AI analytics use case: how Mercor unlocked $100M in revenue🤯  Generative data apps: Gorgeous, interactive dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt📖 State of Data Teams 2026 discover key insights from data leaders 🙏 It's just "Hex"! Not "HEX" or "Hex dot tech"📊 AI analytics use case: how Mercor unlocked $100M in revenue🤯  Generative data apps: Gorgeous, interactive dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt📖 State of Data Teams 2026 discover key insights from data leaders 🙏 It's just "Hex"! Not "HEX" or "Hex dot tech"📊 AI analytics use case: how Mercor unlocked $100M in revenue🤯  Generative data apps: Gorgeous, interactive dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt📖 State of Data Teams 2026 discover key insights from data leaders 🙏 It's just "Hex"! Not "HEX" or "Hex dot tech"📊 AI analytics use case: how Mercor unlocked $100M in revenue🤯  Generative data apps: Gorgeous, interactive dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt📖 State of Data Teams 2026 discover key insights from data leaders 🙏 It's just "Hex"! Not "HEX" or "Hex dot tech"📊 AI analytics use case: how Mercor unlocked $100M in revenue🤯  Generative data apps: Gorgeous, interactive dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt📖 State of Data Teams 2026 discover key insights from data leaders 🙏 It's just "Hex"! Not "HEX" or "Hex dot tech"Open RoleCompute Engineering LeadNYCAbout the role:You will be tasked with tackling one of our most critical challenges: performance. Our users love Hex's feature-rich platform that enables complex data applications, but they need everything to execute faster. You'll lead efforts to evolve our compute architecture while maintaining the flexibility and power that makes Hex special.You'll guide a team of experts to shape our performance investments, build a more solid foundation, and drive towards an ambitious vision where performance becomes a key differentiator for Hex in the market.What you will do:Design and implement an architecture intentionally built for multimodal workflows that maintains what users love about Hex while delivering optimal performance across all data scalesMap performance bottlenecks in detail and lead the team in consistently delivering measurable improvementsEstablish data-driven north star metrics to quantify performance targets and measure progressDeliver large projects incrementally with smooth customer rollouts while maintaining a high execution barCreate the right abstraction layers that enable teams to divide and conquer performance problems with clear guaranteesIntegrate compute investments with other teams' plans to multiply the impact of new product developmentCollaborate with field teams to position our unique architecture as a selling point against competitorsInspire confidence throughout the company in our compute direction and articulate why it mattersAbout you:6+ years of experience working on highly technical projects2+ years of management or tech lead-manager experienceExperience working with and managing remote teamsExperience skillfully managing performance and systems projects, optimizing for testing, measurement, and incremental progressAn infectious excitement to make things go VROOMAn inexhaustible desire to understand where every millisecond of time could be goingHighly technical with the ability to understand architecture at a level that earns the respect of the teamDeeply informed on industry trends around data processing, databases, and performant data architecturesExcellent product understanding; can break user problems into their technical and product componentsStrong communicator who builds understanding across team roadmaps...