Helius
Platform Engineer, Infrastructure
North America, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will automate the server lifecycle and build tooling for a global edge network running on bare metal. You will also standardize software deployment and execute security roadmap items.
What you will do
- Automate the server lifecycle end to end including provisioning, OS installs, configuration, hardware validation, and decommissioning
- Build and maintain tooling for engineers to interact with the fleet
- Standardize how software is built and deployed to machines
- Execute security roadmap items including SSO-integrated access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit trails
- Run cost analysis across the fleet and provide recommendations
- Improve observability for owned infrastructure
- Take part in on-call and incident response
- Write clear runbooks and docs
Required qualifications
- 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
- 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
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
Benefits
- Market-leading salary
- Meaningful equity
- Generous vacation
- Wellness budgets
- Support for learning and travel
About the company
Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana to empower developers to create crypto-powered applications. They are a small, senior team focused on performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.