Staff Platform Engineer, Observability (Remote)

Helius; United States; A distancia; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Market-leading salary

Equity

Generous vacation

Wellness budget

Learning and travel support

Descripción de la vacante

Helius is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own observability end-to-end and rebuild our visibility stack from the ground up. You’ll design and run the systems behind metrics, logs, tracing, and performance debugging for every product team at Helius.

This work has huge leverage, enabling faster iteration, tighter feedback loops, and higher reliability across the company. You’ll architect pipelines that handle massive throughput, granular trace data, and millisecond-level introspection.

Formación

• 8+ years of programming experience with a focus on observability.
• Experience with ClickHouse, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Ability to design systems that handle massive data volumes and high throughput.
• Strong systems thinking, performance awareness, and reliability mindset.

Responsabilidades

• Architect a new observability stack across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.
• Build high-throughput observability pipelines for fast, low-latency querying.
• Lead migration from Datadog to internal, cost-efficient tooling.
• Partner with infra, product, and performance teams to enable deep debugging workflows.
• Own reliability, scaling, and cost efficiency across the observability system.
• Keep systems simple and fast for engineers to reason about.

Conocimientos

Observability systems

Programming experience

Systems thinking

Herramientas

ClickHouse

Loki

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Grafana

Descripción del empleo

Helius is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own observability end-to-end and rebuild our visibility stack from the ground up. You’ll design and run the systems behind metrics, logs, tracing, and performance debugging for every product team at Helius.

This work has huge leverage, enabling faster iteration, tighter feedback loops, and higher reliability across the company. You’ll architect pipelines that handle massive throughput, granular trace data, and millisecond-level introspection.