Staff Platform Engineer, Observability: High-Throughput & Remote

Helius; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Generous vacation

Wellness budgets

Support for learning and travel

Job summary

Helius is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement observability systems from the ground up. In this role, you'll architect new pipelines for metrics, logs, and performance debugging, ensuring reliability and scaling. With 8+ years of programming expertise and knowledge of observability tools, you will play a critical role in enhancing system performance. The position offers remote-first flexibility, competitive compensation, and an opportunity to shape the future of decentralized applications in the Solana ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of strong programming experience with a deep understanding of observability systems.
• Experience with tools like ClickHouse, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Ability to design systems that handle massive data volumes and sustained read/write throughput.

Responsibilities

• Architect a new observability stack across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.
• Build high-throughput observability pipelines optimized for fast, low-latency querying.
• Own reliability, scaling, and cost efficiency across the entire observability system.

Skills

Programming experience

Observability systems understanding

Tools like ClickHouse

Tools like Elasticsearch

Tools like Prometheus

Systems thinking

Tools

ClickHouse

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Helius is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement observability systems from the ground up. In this role, you'll architect new pipelines for metrics, logs, and performance debugging, ensuring reliability and scaling. With 8+ years of programming expertise and knowledge of observability tools, you will play a critical role in enhancing system performance. The position offers remote-first flexibility, competitive compensation, and an opportunity to shape the future of decentralized applications in the Solana ecosystem.