Senior Engineering Recruiter for Core Infrastructure (Remote)

SOLANA FOUNDATION; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first flexiblity

Competitive compensation

Equity

Wellness budget

Learning and travel support

Job summary

Helius is hiring a senior engineering recruiter to own full-cycle searches for backend, infrastructure, and systems roles. You’ll report to the VP of People and collaborate with Engineering leadership to define success profiles, calibrate levels, and push back on mismatches.

You’ll build outbound pipelines, source from both large-scale infra firms and startups, and run high-signal interviews in Ashby to move quickly without lowering the bar.

Qualifications

• 5+ years recruiting engineers, with a track record of closing senior and staff-level backend, infrastructure, or systems roles.
• Strong sourcing instincts. You enjoy the hunt and have your own playbook for finding people who aren’t on the market.
• Technical fluency. You don’t need to code, but you can talk distributed systems, databases, and performance with engineers without losing them.
• Startup or high-growth experience where you were expected to move fast and get it right.
• The confidence to push back on hiring managers and drive alignment.
• Clear, direct communication and real follow-through.
• A bias for action and ownership of outcomes, not just activity.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of senior and staff-level searches end to end, from intake through signed offer.
• Partner directly with Engineering leadership to define success profiles and calibrate on level, and push back when a req or a profile isn’t right.
• Build outbound pipelines into infrastructure, cloud, devtools, and data companies. Source from both large-scale infrastructure companies and fast-moving startups, because our best hires often have both on their résumé.
• Spot high-trajectory engineers, not just impressive titles. We’ll hire someone with 3 years of steep growth over someone with 10 flat years.
• Sell the engineering problem, not the token. Translate Helius’s systems challenges for engineers who would never open a crypto recruiter’s message.
• Run a structured, high-signal interview process in Ashby that moves fast without lowering the bar.
• Run the closing process end to end, including bringing in founders and investors at the right moments, to win candidates with competing offers from larger, well-funded companies.
• Turn our referral program into a consistent source of hire by mining the team’s networks, not just waiting for submissions.
• Own our agency relationships and decide where in-house sourcing beats them.
• Track pipeline health and conversion by stage, and use the data to fix bottlenecks.
• Help build our talent brand with engineers through outreach, content, and representing Helius at engineering events and conferences (occasional travel).

Skills

5+ years recruiting engineers

Sourcing instincts

Technical fluency

Startup/high-growth experience

Challenging hiring managers

Clear communication

Bias for action

Tools

Ashby

AI-assisted sourcing tools

Job description

Helius is hiring a senior engineering recruiter to own full-cycle searches for backend, infrastructure, and systems roles. You’ll report to the VP of People and collaborate with Engineering leadership to define success profiles, calibrate levels, and push back on mismatches.

You’ll build outbound pipelines, source from both large-scale infra firms and startups, and run high-signal interviews in Ashby to move quickly without lowering the bar.