Senior Platform Engineer - Infrastructure & Scalability

About 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

We’re hiring a Sr. Platform Engineer to automate and scale the global bare metal infrastructure that powers everything at Helius. You’ll own provisioning, lifecycle management, deployment tooling, observability, and reliability workflows that every product team depends on.

This isn’t a narrow ops role. You’ll build high-leverage systems that give engineers fast, safe, and predictable paths to ship code and operate services at scale.

What You'll Do

• Automate provisioning and lifecycle management for global bare metal fleets
• Build modern CI/CD pipelines that support fast and safe global deployments
• Design deployment, tracing, and observability workflows used by every engineering team
• Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience at the platform layer
• Partner with performance teams on scaling, resilience, and low-latency infra work
• Own foundational systems end-to-end and keep them simple, reliable, and easy to operate
  
  

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience operating large-scale infrastructure
• Strong programming skills and familiarity with modern infra tooling
• Understanding of hardware, operating systems, and networking
• Experience with CI/CD design, deployment pipelines, and production systems
• Comfort owning critical, high-reliability systems with minimal oversight
• Ability to think in systems, simplify complexity, and automate aggressively
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with bare metal at scale
• Background in high-availability environments (e.g., AWS, Netflix, etc.)
  
  

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 and user experiences across distributed infra, high-throughput backends, and modern frontend stacks.
• 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 shaping the future of decentralized apps.
  
  

Compensation Range: $200K - $300K