[Hiring] Platform Engineer @Helius

Role Description

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
• 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.

Qualifications

• Extreme ownership: treat the systems you touch as yours, see problems through to the fix, and automate yourself out of repetitive work
• 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)
• 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: think about access, blast radius, and secrets by default

Requirements

• 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
• Standardize how we build and deploy software to machines: CI pipelines, artifacts, deploy tooling, and rollbacks
• Execute security roadmap items alongside our security lead
• Run cost analysis across the fleet, including cost per workload, provider comparisons, and hardware refresh decisions
• Improve observability for the infrastructure you own
• Write clear runbooks and docs for the remote team

Benefits

• High-impact work: Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem
• Serious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems and user experiences
• Ownership & growth: Lead critical initiatives and influence architecture
• 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 are shaping the future of decentralized apps