Staff Backend Engineer, Historical APIs
Heliusa day ago
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RemoteFull-timeSenior
Summary
Helius is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, Historical APIs to join their team in the United States. The role involves owning and evolving infrastructure for Solana, focusing on architecting systems that scale to multi-petabyte datasets.
About the Role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will define technical direction, architect systems, and mentor senior engineers. Your responsibilities include leading the development of ingestion, indexing, and retrieval systems, driving technical strategy for API performance, and making architectural decisions on caching and distributed data patterns.
About You
Required:
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of building large-scale, high-performance systems.
- Deep expertise in Rust (strongly preferred), C++, or equivalent systems programming languages.
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, and performance-critical infrastructure at scale.
- Expert-level knowledge of database internals, schema design, and optimization patterns for large datasets.
Preferred:
- Experience with Solana, blockchain, or web3 infrastructure.
- Deep expertise with Postgres, ClickHouse, and/or RocksDB internals.
- Previous experience in a Staff or Principal engineering role.
- Open source contributions or technical writing that demonstrates depth of expertise.
Benefits
- High-impact work: Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem.
- Serious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems and user experiences across distributed infra.
- Ownership & growth: Lead critical initiatives and influence architecture and product direction.
- Remote-first flexibility: Work where you’re most effective with a flexible, fully distributed team.
- Competitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel.
Helius
Helius is an enterprise-grade Solana development platform offering best-in-class RPCs, APIs, data streaming tools, and 24/7 customer support. Helius runs the top Solana validator and offers both individual stakers and institutional staking partners 0% fees and 100% MEV rewards. Learn more at https://helius.xyz or get started at https://docs.helius.xyz
United States