About the Company
Helius provides a developer platform on the Solana blockchain that helps accelerate the creation of crypto-powered software. Its customers use the platform to power their applications on Solana.
Responsibilities
•Automate the server lifecycle, including provisioning, OS installation, configuration, hardware validation, and decommissioning
•Build and maintain tooling for engineers to interact with the server fleet
•Standardize software build and deployment to machines, including CI pipelines, artifacts, deployment tooling, and rollbacks
•Execute security roadmap items alongside the security lead, including SSO-integrated access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit trails
•Analyze fleet costs, including cost per workload, provider comparisons, and hardware refresh decisions, and turn the findings into recommendations
•Improve observability for owned infrastructure and participate in on-call and incident response
•Write clear runbooks and documentation so the distributed team can operate the systems
Requirements
•3+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
•Hands-on bare-metal experience, including provisioning and managing physical servers, working with colo or dedicated-server providers, and debugging hardware and software issues
•Deep Linux fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, and performance tuning
•Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code, such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, or Nix
•Scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
•Strong ownership, accountability, and a security mindset, including considering access, blast radius, and secrets by default
Nice to Have
•Rust experience or interest in reading and debugging Rust services
•High-performance networking or low-latency systems experience
•Familiarity with ClickHouse, Prometheus, or Grafana
•Experience at a high-scale B2B infrastructure company
Conditions
•Market-leading salary
•Meaningful equity
•Generous vacation
•Wellness budgets
•Support for learning and travel
