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title: 'Platform Engineer, Infrastructure at Helius'
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# Platform Engineer, Infrastructure at Helius

- **Company:** Helius
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helius/08bbec3d-0923-4370-bc58-30a8e8a90a95

## Job description

## About Helius

Helius is a leading developer platform on the Solana blockchain, dedicated to inspiring and accelerating the creation of crypto-powered software. Customers like Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom use Helius to power their applications on Solana.

[We’ve raised over $34m](https://www.helius.dev/blog/funding-announcement) from Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Chapter One and angel investors including Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, and Balaji Srinivasan. Our team members have previously built mission-critical, scalable infrastructure at AWS, Coinbase, Stripe, Google, Digital Ocean, and more.

Read our [Helius Manifesto](https://www.helius.dev/blog/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 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.

## About Helius

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Helius is an enterprise-grade development platform providing the fastest RPCs, APIs, trading infrastructure, and data streaming tools for the Solana blockchain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Claymont, Delaware, United States (remote-first)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mert M. (CEO), Nicolas Pennie (COO), Liam Vovk (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / software development
- **Target customers**: B2B – crypto exchanges, wallet providers, DeFi protocols, market makers, searchers, fintechs, and any team building on Solana
- **Mission statement**: “Increase the economic potential of the world’s developers” by accelerating internet capital markets on Solana

## Products & Services
- **Solana RPCs** – Globally distributed, sub‑millisecond RPC nodes with a Rust‑based edge gateway (Gatekeeper) and exclusive archival methods (e.g., cursor‑based pagination).
- **Sender** – Ultra‑low latency transaction sending service (7 global endpoints, 50 TPS default, staked bandwidth) for reliable trade landing.
- **LaserStream** – High‑performance gRPC streaming for Solana blocks, transactions, and account data with redundant node clusters, historical replay, and optimized ShredStream.
- **Webhooks & APIs** – Real‑time notifications and unified API for building crypto apps.
- **Validator‑as‑a‑Service** – Operates Solana’s #1 validator to support clients with staked connections.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total Funding: USD 34.35 M (Seed 2022 → Series A 2024 → Series B 2024 → Venture 2025)
  - Annual Revenue: Conflicting reports – LinkedIn estimates USD 1 M, CB Insights estimates USD 12.6 M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders Fund, Haun Ventures, Chapter One, Reciprocal Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Foundation Capital, Anatoly Yakovenko, Balaji Srinivasan
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 34 employees (+40.5% YoY)
  - Active job postings: 7 (Yearly change +133%)
  - Customers include Coinbase, Bitwise, Phantom, and pump.fun
  - SOC 2 certified, 99.99% RPC success rate, 5x faster transaction confirmations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: Helius is Solana’s #1 validator, giving it unique staked bandwidth and topological advantages.
- **Performance**: Sub‑millisecond reads (Gatekeeper), 7 global endpoints for transaction sending, redundant node clusters for data streaming.
- **Trust & Compliance**: SOC 2 certified infrastructure, 24/7 support, and enterprise‑grade reliability.
- **Developer‑first**: Free tier available, cursor‑based archival methods, and purpose‑built tools for traders, searchers, and fintechs.

## Strategic Focus
Helius is focused on scaling “internet capital markets” on Solana by continuously lowering latency, adding regional coverage (FRA, AMS, TYO, SG, LAX, LON, EWR, PITT, SLC), and expanding products for high‑frequency trading, DeFi, and wallet infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote** – Work from anywhere; founder‑backed flexibility (“crypto is not a 9‑to‑5”).
- **Partner offices** in 7 global cities (SF, LA, Chicago, NYC, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo).
- **Wellness, event, and learning budgets** to fuel peak performance and community engagement.
- **High‑stakes engineering** – Build low‑latency distributed systems in adversarial, high‑throughput environments.
- **Culture**: “Faster, Divine Discontent, Clear Communication, Assertive Action, Win, Optimism” – direct, execution‑oriented, and optimistic.
- **Diverse team** – 34 employees across 14 countries (US, Canada, India, Germany, South Africa, etc.).

## Sources
1. [Helius Official Website](https://www.helius.dev/)
2. [Helius Careers Page](https://www.helius.dev/careers)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/heliusapi)
4. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/helius-1)
5. [Ashby Job Board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helius)

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