Remote Staff Backend Engineer - Architect & Performance Leader

Rustify; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana, enabling developers to create crypto-powered applications. We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own a core system such as Gatekeeper, Data Streaming, Historical APIs, or Account Index, and set the technical direction for the team.

You will work directly with founders and engineering leadership in a small, high-impact group, taking end-to-end ownership of your domain and driving the platform to scale with ultra-low latency and high

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for a core backend system - architecture, reliability, performance, and roadmap.
• Design and implement solutions to the hardest problems in your domain - distributed systems, storage engines, streaming pipelines, or edge infrastructure.
• Drive performance engineering across your system - profiling, benchmarking, and pushing latency and throughput to the limit.

Job description

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana, enabling developers to create crypto-powered applications. We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own a core system such as Gatekeeper, Data Streaming, Historical APIs, or Account Index, and set the technical direction for the team.

You will work directly with founders and engineering leadership in a small, high-impact group, taking end-to-end ownership of your domain and driving the platform to scale with ultra-low latency and high