Helius Platform Engineer, Infrastructure at Helius automating server lifecycle and standardizing software deployment on bare metal infrastructure. Execute security roadmap and improve observability for global edge network.
Responsibilities
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.
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
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
Qualification
Extreme ownership3+ years in infrastructureHands-on bare metal experienceDeep Linux fundamentalsA security mindsetRust experienceFamiliarity with ClickHouseHigh-impact workSerious engineeringOwnership & growthRemote-first flexibility
Required
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
Preferred
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
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.
