Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

Summary

Helius is a developer platform on the Solana blockchain that builds infrastructure for crypto-powered software. The Platform Engineer will improve the company’s bare-metal fleet by automating server provisioning and configuration, standardizing software deployment, executing security initiatives, optimizing infrastructure costs, and enhancing observability and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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 Haves

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• 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.
• Meaningful equity
• Generous vacation
• Wellness budgets
• Support for learning and travel
• Mission-driven team: Join ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and are shaping the future of decentralized apps.