Helius
Staff Backend Engineer, Gatekeeper
North America
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ABOUT HELIUS Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana - empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by making it easier, faster, and more intuitive to build on-chain. Thousands of teams - from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter - rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, we’re a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems. Read our Helius Manifesto https://helius-api.notion.site/The-Helius-Manifesto-1510b5a55cc5802eb3f8e41f539ed810 to see how we work and what we value. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to own and evolve Gatekeeper https://www.helius.dev/docs/gatekeeper/overview, Helius’ high-performance edge gateway and middleware layer. Gatekeeper is the single entry point for JSON-RPC, WebSockets, and Helius APIs, and it exists to make latency and reliability feel comparable to running a dedicated node, globally. In this role, you will lead architectural decisions across routing, connection management, backpressure, and observability. You will work closely with internal service teams to improve end-to-end performance and failure handling...
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