Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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HeliusBlockchain Infrastructure

North AmericaFull-TimeStaff

SalaryMarket-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel.

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8+ years of backend engineering with a strong track record building large-scale, production-grade systems
Deep systems-level expertise - you operate comfortably at the layer where software meets hardware
Proficiency in Rust (strongly preferred) or equivalent systems programming language (C++, Go)
Demonstrated ability to own and evolve complex systems end-to-end, from architecture to production operations
Experience leading ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives and driving them to completion
Performance engineering instincts - you've profiled hot paths, understood the root cause, and fixed it at the code level
High ownership, high intensity - you thrive in fast-moving environments and hold yourself to an exceptional standard
Prior exposure to engineering cultures that prioritize operational excellence, performance, and customer reliability at scale

Own the technical direction for a core backend system - architecture, reliability, performance, and roadmap
Design and implement solutions to the hardest problems in your domain - distributed systems, storage engines, streaming pipelines, or edge infrastructure
Drive performance engineering across your system - profiling, benchmarking, and pushing latency and throughput to the limit
Set standards for operational excellence - observability, incident response, and making systems simpler and safer to operate
Partner with founders and engineering leadership on long-term technical strategy
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, drive technical consensus, and influence without authority
Identify and solve complex, ambiguous problems that span multiple systems

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