Platform Engineer Infrastructure
Helius is an enterprise-grade Solana development platform offering RPCs, APIs, data streaming tools, and 24/7 customer support.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Helius
Helius is an API platform that empowers developers to build on Solana by providing enhanced data, insights, and automation. Their APIs offer real-time data, historical data, token metadata, and more. Helius aims to make building on Solana easier and more accessible for developers.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will automate and manage the bare-metal server lifecycle, build fleet-management tooling, and standardize software builds, deployments, and rollbacks. You will improve infrastructure security, analyze fleet costs, enhance observability, participate in on-call and incident response, and document operational procedures.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
- Hands-on bare-metal server provisioning and management experience
- Linux fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, and performance tuning
- Configuration management and infrastructure-as-code experience
- Scripting or programming ability in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
- Security mindset focused on access, blast radius, and secrets
Responsibilities
- Automate server provisioning, operating-system installation, configuration, hardware validation, and decommissioning
- Build and maintain tooling for engineers to interact with the fleet
- Standardize CI pipelines, artifacts, deployment tooling, and rollbacks
- Execute security roadmap items, including SSO-integrated access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit trails
- Analyze fleet costs and provide recommendations on workloads, providers, and hardware refreshes
- Improve infrastructure observability
- Participate in on-call and incident response
- Write runbooks and documentation
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Generous vacation
- Wellness budgets
- Support for travel
- Flexible remote-first work
