Platform Engineer, Bare-Metal Infra

Helius; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first flexibility

Competitive salary

Equity

Generous vacation

Wellness budget

Learning & travel support

Job summary

Helius runs its global edge network and high-performance services on bare metal, owned and operated by the team. You will join our Platform group to accelerate provisioning, standardize software delivery, and advance security across the fleet. This intermediate role emphasizes ownership, speed of learning, and practical impact rather than matching a fixed tech stack.

No crypto background is required; we’ll teach the blockchain specifics if you’ve built serious infrastructure elsewhere.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on bare metal provisioning and management (PXE, IPMI/BMC, RAID, NICs).
• Deep Linux fundamentals: systemd, networking, storage, tuning.

Responsibilities

• Automate server lifecycle end-to-end: provisioning, OS installs, config, validation, decommissioning.
• Build and maintain fleet tooling to avoid manual machine config.
• Standardize build/deploy of software to machines: CI pipelines, artifacts, deploy tooling, rollbacks.
• Execute security roadmap: SSO access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege access, audit trails.
• Run cost analysis across fleet and provide actionable recommendations.
• Improve observability and participate in on-call and incident response.
• Write runbooks/docs for remote team operations.

Skills

Ownership & responsibility

3+ years infrastructure

Bare metal experience

Linux fundamentals

CI/CD tooling

Scripting: Python/Go/Bash

Security mindset

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Salt

Nix

Job description

Helius runs its global edge network and high-performance services on bare metal, owned and operated by the team. You will join our Platform group to accelerate provisioning, standardize software delivery, and advance security across the fleet. This intermediate role emphasizes ownership, speed of learning, and practical impact rather than matching a fixed tech stack.

No crypto background is required; we’ll teach the blockchain specifics if you’ve built serious infrastructure elsewhere.