Staff Performance Engineer

Job Summary

Owning the most latency-critical systems, the full-time Staff Performance Engineer will set technical direction, optimize low-level Rust services, and lead initiatives to enhance performance across Helius' infrastructure in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities

• Set technical direction for performance across latency-critical systems, influencing architecture and engineering standards
• Profile, tune, and optimize low-level Rust services for high-throughput, latency-sensitive applications
• Lead cross-team initiatives to identify and eliminate systemic performance bottlenecks

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of systems-level engineering experience in Rust or C++
• Deep experience tuning high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems
• Proven track record of leading cross-team technical projects and shipping durable systems
• Strong intuition for hardware, operating systems, and network performance
• A desire to push performance limits beyond just adequate solutions