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title: 'Platform Engineering Lead at Helius'
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# Platform Engineering Lead at Helius

- **Company:** Helius
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-11-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helius/dcdd70fd-9297-4675-9f18-d8b7a2063172

## Job description

## 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](https://www.helius.dev/blog/manifesto) to see how we work and what we value.

## About the Role

This is the lead role for Platform at Helius. Reporting to the Co-founder/Head of Engineering, you'll build and lead the team that owns the foundation under everything we ship: our bare metal fleet, how software gets built and deployed, observability, reliability, and engineering security.

Our products carry real traffic and real revenue, and our customers include trading firms and wallets with no tolerance for downtime. Your job is to make reliability a discipline rather than a heroic effort. That means SLOs and error budgets, a real incident process, blameless postmortems, and automation that removes toil instead of documenting it. If Google's SRE book is a reference point for how you think teams should operate, you'll feel at home here.

This is a hands-on lead role. You'll set direction and grow the team. You'll also stay close enough to the systems to make the hard technical calls and ship when it matters. No crypto background is required.

## What You'll Do

- Set the Platform roadmap and own outcomes across bare metal, builds and deployments, observability, SRE, security, and node operations
- Build our SRE practice: SLOs, alerting standards, incident command, on-call health, postmortems, and incident automation
- Lead our observability overhaul: migrate off Datadog onto ClickHouse and Grafana, and raise the bar on visibility across every service
- Standardize how we build and deploy software to machines, so shipping is fast, safe, and consistent across teams
- Partner with our security lead to plan and execute the engineering security roadmap
- Drive fleet strategy, including capacity planning, provider relationships, and cost analysis
- Hire, mentor, and grow Platform engineers, and set the team's operating norms in a remote, async-heavy environment
- Work closely with product engineering teams (Data Streaming, Historical APIs, Gatekeeper, and others) so Platform accelerates them rather than gating them

## What You'll Bring

- 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including time as a tech lead or engineering manager
- Deep experience running production infrastructure at scale, with meaningful bare metal experience
- A track record of building SRE practices, such as SLOs, incident management, and postmortem culture, not just participating in them
- Strong observability depth, including metrics, logs, and tracing, plus experience designing or migrating an observability stack
- Solid security fundamentals across access control, secrets, and infrastructure hardening
- Strong Linux, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals
- Clear written communication. Your design docs and incident reviews need to stand on their own for a remote team.

## Nice to Have

- Experience at a high-scale, performance-oriented B2B infrastructure company (cloud, CDN, or edge platforms)
- Experience with ClickHouse or other high-volume observability backends
- Blockchain node operations experience
- Rust experience
- Experience building a platform team from an early stage

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 and high-throughput backends
- 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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