Staff Platform Engineer, Observability

Job description

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 - from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter - 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. Read our Helius Manifesto https://www.helius.dev/blog/manifesto to see how we work and what we value. 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. This work has huge leverage. Better visibility means faster iteration, tighter feedback loops, and higher reliability across the entire company. You’ll architect pipelines that handle massive throughput, granular trace data, and millisecond-level introspection. If you enjoy building high-performance systems that help engineers understand and operate complex workloads, this role hits that sweet spot. 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: Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem, including Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom - Serious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems and user experiences across distributed infra and high-throughput backends - Ownership & growth: Lead critical initiatives, influence architecture and product direction, and take on more responsibility as the company scales - Remote-first flexibility: Work where you’re most effective with a flexible, fully distributed team - Competitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel - Mission-driven team: Join ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and are shaping the future of decentralized apps