Staff Platform Engineer, Observability - Helius

About Helius

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana - empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by making it easier, faster, and more intuitive to build on-chain.

Thousands of teams rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, we’re a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to own observability end-to-end and rebuild our visibility stack from the ground up. You’ll design and run the systems behind metrics, logs, tracing, and performance debugging for every product team at Helius.

What You'll Do

• 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

What You'll Bring

• 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

Why Helius?

• High-impact work: Power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem
• Serious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems across distributed infra and high-throughput backends
• Ownership & growth: Lead critical initiatives and influence architecture and product direction
• Remote-first flexibility: Work where you’re most effective with a fully distributed team
• Competitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel