North America Remote (Global) Full-time

Helius is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer, Observability

Responsibilities

  • Architect a new observability stack across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting
  • Build high-throughput observability pipelines optimized for fast, low-latency querying
  • Lead the migration from Datadog to cost-efficient, performance-focused internal tools
  • Partner with infra, product, and performance teams to support deep debugging workflows
  • Own reliability, scaling, and cost efficiency across the entire observability system
  • Keep systems simple, fast, and easy for engineers to reason about

Requirements

  • 8+ years of strong programming experience with deep understanding of observability systems
  • Experience with tools like ClickHouse, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, or Grafana
  • Ability to design systems that handle massive data volumes and sustained read/write throughput
  • Strong systems thinking and intuition for performance, storage tradeoffs, and reliability

Nice to Have

  • Experience running bare metal at scale
  • Familiarity with Solana or blockchain performance needs

Benefits

  • 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

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Required Skills
ElasticsearchPrometheusGrafanaSolana
Test your skills for this role

Take a short quiz and show this employer what you can do.

Job Details
Location North America
Work mode Remote (Global)
Employment Full-time
Department Engineering
Category DevOps & SRE
Posted 10 months ago
or drop your CV first
About company
Helius logo
Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana - empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Thousands of teams rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products.
All jobs at Helius Visit website