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Helius · 1 month ago

Staff Platform Engineer, Observability

positionNorth America
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
date8+ years exp

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana, empowering developers to create next-generation crypto-powered applications. The Staff Platform Engineer will own observability end-to-end, architecting a new visibility stack and building high-throughput observability pipelines to enhance system reliability and performance across the company.

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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

Qualification

High-throughput pipelinesClickHouseElasticsearchObservability systemsSystems thinkingPerformance debuggingLokiPrometheusGrafanaBare metal experienceBlockchain familiarity

Required

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

Preferred

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

Benefits

Competitive comp & perks
Market-leading salary
Meaningful equity
Generous vacation
Wellness budgets
Support for learning and travel

Company

Helius

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Helius accelerates the adoption of crypto-powered software.
dateFounded in 2022
location
Toronto, Ontario, CAN
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.helius.dev/

H1B Sponsorship

Helius has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$31.25M
Key Investors
Foundation Capital
2024-09-19Series B· $21.75M
2024-02-22Series A· $9.5M
2022-08-01Seed

Leadership Team

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Liam Vovk
Co-founder & CTO
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