Role description
Platform Engineer, Infrastructure
HeliusAbout Helius
Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana - empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by making it easier, faster, and more intuitive to build on-chain.
Thousands of teams - from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter - rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, we’re a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.
Read our Helius Manifesto to see how we work and what we value.
About the Role
Helius runs its global edge network and high-performance services directly on bare metal. It's a deliberate choice for performance and cost, and it means the machines, the network, and the tooling that ties them together are ours to get right. This role joins our Platform team to make that fleet faster to provision, safer to access, cheaper to run, and boring to deploy to.
You'll work across the foundation everything else at Helius depends on: automating how servers get spun up and configured, standardizing how software gets built and shipped to machines, and executing on our engineering security roadmap. This is an intermediate role with a lot of room to grow. We care more about ownership, intensity, and learning speed than about a perfect match on today's stack.
No crypto background is needed. If you've run serious infrastructure anywhere, we'll teach you the blockchain parts.
What You'll Do
Automate the server lifecycle end to end: provisioning, OS installs, configuration, hardware validation, and decommissioning
Build and maintain the tooling engineers use to interact with the fleet, so nobody hand-configures a machine twice
Standardize how we build and deploy software to machines: CI pipelines, artifacts, deploy tooling, and rollbacks
Execute security roadmap items alongside our security lead: SSO-integrated access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit trails
Run cost analysis across the fleet, including cost per workload, provider comparisons, and hardware refresh decisions, and turn it into recommendations
Improve observability for the infrastructure you own, and take part in on-call and incident response
Write clear runbooks and docs so the rest of a remote team can operate what you build
What We're Looking For
Extreme ownership: you treat the systems you touch as yours, see problems through to the fix, and automate yourself out of repetitive work rather than living with it. You work the way our Manifesto describes (fast, direct, low-ego, and accountable), and that matters to us more than any single item below.
3+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
Hands-on bare metal experience, such as provisioning and managing physical servers (PXE, IPMI/BMC, RAID, NICs), working with colo or dedicated-server providers, and debugging hardware versus software issues
Deep Linux fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, and performance tuning
Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Nix)
Solid scripting or programming ability in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
A security mindset: you think about access, blast radius, and secrets by default, not as an afterthought
Nice to Have
Rust experience, or interest in reading and debugging Rust services
High-performance networking or low-latency systems experience
Familiarity with ClickHouse, Prometheus, or Grafana
Experience at a high-scale B2B infrastructure company
Why Helius?
High-impact work: Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem, including Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom
Serious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems across distributed infra and high-throughput backends
Ownership & growth: Lead critical initiatives, influence architecture and product direction, and take on more responsibility as the company scales
Remote-first flexibility: Work where you’re most effective with a flexible, fully distributed team
Competitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel
Mission-driven team: Join ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and are building infrastructure for internet capital markets