Platform Engineering Lead

The role

You will build and lead the team that owns the foundation for Helius, including bare metal fleet, software deployment, observability, reliability, and engineering security. You will set the Platform roadmap and drive SRE practices, observability overhauls, and fleet strategy.

What you will do

• Set the Platform roadmap and own outcomes across bare metal, builds and deployments, observability, SRE, security, and node operations
• Build our SRE practice including SLOs, alerting standards, incident command, on-call health, postmortems, and incident automation
• Lead our observability overhaul by migrating off Datadog onto ClickHouse and Grafana
• Standardize how we build and deploy software to machines
• 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
• Work closely with product engineering teams

Required qualifications

• 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
• 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

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

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 backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital.