Technical Recruiter

The role

You will own full-cycle recruiting for engineering searches including database, performance, Rust, backend, platform, and infrastructure roles. You will partner with Engineering leadership to build outbound pipelines and manage the interview process.

What you will do

• Own engineering searches from intake to signed offer at levels from intermediate to staff
• Work with Engineering leadership to decide hire profiles and levels
• Build outbound pipelines into infrastructure, cloud, devtools, database, and data companies
• Run the interview process in Ashby
• Handle closing from start to finish
• Make the referral program produce hires by going through team networks
• Track pipeline health and conversion to fix slow spots
• Build reputation through outreach, content, and engineering events
• Take over high-priority searches for database and performance engineers
• Audit the interview process and funnel data

Required qualifications

• 5+ years recruiting engineers
• Track record of closing backend, infrastructure, database, or systems roles across levels
• Strong sourcing instincts
• Technical fluency in distributed systems, databases, and performance
• Startup or high-growth experience
• Confidence to push back on hiring managers and drive alignment
• Clear, direct communication and real follow-through
• A bias for action and ownership of outcomes

Nice to have

• Recruiting experience at an infrastructure, devtools, cloud, or database company
• A network in the Rust or systems engineering community
• Experience with Ashby and AI-assisted sourcing tools

Benefits

• Market-leading salary
• Meaningful equity
• Generous vacation
• Wellness budgets
• Support for learning and travel

About the company

Helius is building core infrastructure for Solana to empower developers to create crypto-powered applications. It is a small, senior team backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital.