Platform Engineering Lead — Remote, SRE & Observability

SOLANA FOUNDATION; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first flexibility

Competitive compensation

Equity

Generous vacation

Wellness budget

Learning and travel support

Job summary

Helius is seeking a hands-on Platform Lead to own reliability, SRE, and fleet operations for the Solana ecosystem. Reporting to the Co-founder/Head of Engineering, you’ll build and lead a team responsible for bare metal infrastructure, builds, deployments, observability, and security.

In this role you’ll shape the engineering culture around SLOs, postmortems, and incident response, while staying close to the systems to make hard technical calls when it matters. Remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering; time as tech lead or engineering manager.
• Experience running production infrastructure at scale with bare metal experience.
• Proven ability to build SRE practices: SLOs, incident management, postmortems.
• Strong observability depth: metrics, logs, tracing; designing or migrating an observability stack.
• Security fundamentals across access control, secrets, and hardening.
• Strong Linux, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Clear written communication for remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Set the Platform roadmap and own outcomes across bare metal, builds, deployments, observability, SRE, security, and node operations.
• Build the SRE practice: SLOs, incident command, on-call health, postmortems, automation.
• Lead observability overhaul: migrate from Datadog to ClickHouse and Grafana to improve visibility.
• Standardize engineering practices for fast, safe, and consistent deployments.
• Partner with security lead to plan and execute the security roadmap.
• Drive fleet strategy: capacity planning, provider relationships, cost analysis.
• Hire and mentor Platform engineers in a remote, async-heavy environment.
• Collaborate with Data Streaming, Historical APIs, Gatekeeper teams to accelerate Platform.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

SRE practices

Observability

Security fundamentals

Linux / Networking

Distributed systems

Written communication

Remote collaboration

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

ClickHouse

Job description

Helius is seeking a hands-on Platform Lead to own reliability, SRE, and fleet operations for the Solana ecosystem. Reporting to the Co-founder/Head of Engineering, you’ll build and lead a team responsible for bare metal infrastructure, builds, deployments, observability, and security.

In this role you’ll shape the engineering culture around SLOs, postmortems, and incident response, while staying close to the systems to make hard technical calls when it matters. Remote-friendly environment.