Platform Engineer, Infrastructure — Remote-First

SOLANA FOUNDATION; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Generous vacation

Wellness budgets

Learning and travel support

Job summary

Helius runs its global edge network and high-performance services directly on bare metal. This Platform role joins our team to make that fleet faster to provision, safer to access, cheaper to run, and boring to deploy.

You’ll work across the foundation to automate server spin-up, standardize software builds, and execute on the security roadmap. This intermediate role offers growth as you own impactful projects within a remote-first, fast-learning environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
• Hands-on bare metal experience provisioning and managing physical servers (PXE, IPMI/BMC, RAID, NICs)
• Deep Linux fundamentals: systemd, networking, storage, performance tuning
• Experience with configuration management and IaC (Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Nix)
• Solid scripting or programming ability in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
• A security mindset: think about access, blast radius, and secrets by default

Responsibilities

• Automate the server lifecycle end to end: provisioning, OS installs, configuration, hardware validation, and decommissioning
• Build and maintain the tooling engineers use to interact with the fleet
• Standardize how we build and deploy software to machines: CI pipelines, artifacts, deploy tooling, and rollbacks
• Execute security roadmap items: SSO-integrated access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege access, audit trails
• Run cost analysis across the fleet and translate into recommendations
• Improve observability for the infrastructure and participate in on-call and incident response
• Write clear runbooks and docs for a remote team to operate what you build

Skills

Bare metal provisioning

Linux administration

Python

Go

CI/CD pipelines

Security mindset

Tools

PXE

IPMI/BMC

RAID

Ansible

Terraform

Nix

Job description

Helius runs its global edge network and high-performance services directly on bare metal. This Platform role joins our team to make that fleet faster to provision, safer to access, cheaper to run, and boring to deploy.

You’ll work across the foundation to automate server spin-up, standardize software builds, and execute on the security roadmap. This intermediate role offers growth as you own impactful projects within a remote-first, fast-learning environment.