Staff Backend Engineer (Rust) — Solana Infrastructure

Helius; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first flexibility

Market-leading salary

Meaningful equity

Generous vacation

Wellness budgets

Learning and travel support

Job summary

Helius is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own one of our core systems, such as Gatekeeper or Data Streaming, helping scale the Solana-powered platform.

You'll work closely with founders and engineering leadership to define architecture, set technical direction, and raise the bar for reliability and performance across the system.

In this remote-first role, you’ll mentor others, optimize latency, and ship production systems at scale, contributing to developer experience and platform robustness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems at scale.
• Strong systems-level intuition and ownership mindset.
• Proficiency in Rust, C++, or Go.
• Experience debugging latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end with minimal direction.
• Commitment to operational excellence, reliability, and customer impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and release novel, performance-sensitive products that transform the developer experience on Solana.
• Optimize production systems—profiling, benchmarking, and improving latency and throughput.
• Collaborate with staff engineers and founders on architectural and product decisions.
• Improve operational excellence—observability, incident response, and easier operational runbooks.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar across the team.

Skills

Backend systems

Latency optimization

Observability

Mentoring

Staff collaboration

Tools

Rust

C++

Go

Job description

Helius is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own one of our core systems, such as Gatekeeper or Data Streaming, helping scale the Solana-powered platform.

You'll work closely with founders and engineering leadership to define architecture, set technical direction, and raise the bar for reliability and performance across the system.

In this remote-first role, you’ll mentor others, optimize latency, and ship production systems at scale, contributing to developer experience and platform robustness.