Platform Engineering Lead

As Platform Engineering Lead at Helius, you'll build and lead the team that owns the foundation for everything Helius ships: bare metal fleet, how software gets built and deployed, observability, reliability, and engineering security. Reporting to the Co-founder/Head of Engineering, you'll set direction and grow the team while staying hands-on enough to make hard technical calls and ship when it matters. Your customers include trading firms and wallets with zero tolerance for downtime, so your job is to make reliability a discipline rather than a heroic effort.

What you'll do

• Set the Platform roadmap and own outcomes across bare metal, builds and deployments, observability, SRE, security, and node operations
• Build the SRE practice: establish SLOs, alerting standards, incident command, on-call health, postmortems, and incident automation
• Lead the observability overhaul by migrating off Datadog onto ClickHouse and Grafana, and raising visibility standards across every service
• Standardize how teams build and deploy software to machines so shipping is fast, safe, and consistent
• Partner with the 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, and set the team's operating norms in a remote, async-heavy environment
• Work closely with product engineering teams (Data Streaming, Historical APIs, Gatekeeper, and others) so Platform accelerates rather than gates them

What you bring

• 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, not just participating in them
• 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; your design docs and incident reviews need to stand on their own for a remote team

Nice to have

• Experience at a high-scale, performance-oriented B2B infrastructure company such as a cloud, CDN, or edge platform
• Experience with ClickHouse or other high-volume observability backends
• Blockchain node operations experience
• Rust experience
• Experience building a platform team from an early stage

What we offer

• Market-leading salary with meaningful equity
• Generous vacation and wellness budgets
• Support for learning and travel
• Fully remote work

About Helius

Helius is building core infrastructure for Solana, empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Thousands of teams, from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter, rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, Helius is a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.