Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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🏈 North America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Helius Sunlink PV

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2004

⚡ Energy

🏭 Manufacturing

Energy • Manufacturing • Solar

Helius Sunlink PV is a company focused on developing high-quality photovoltaic modules for solar energy generation. With a manufacturing capacity of 6. 6 GW, Helius Sunlink PV employs industry-leading technology to deliver efficient and reliable solar products to various projects around the globe. They emphasize technical customer service and maintain rigorous quality control strategies in their production processes.

📋 Description

• Own the technical direction for a core backend system, including architecture, reliability, performance, and roadmap • Design and implement solutions for complex distributed systems, storage engines, streaming pipelines, or edge infrastructure problems • Drive performance engineering through profiling, benchmarking, and optimization of latency and throughput • Set standards for operational excellence, observability, incident response, and simpler, safer operations • 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 spanning multiple systems

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience • Strong track record building large-scale, production-grade systems • Deep systems-level expertise • Proficiency in Rust, or equivalent systems programming language such as C++ or Go • 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 experience, including profiling hot paths, identifying root causes, and fixing issues at the code level • High ownership and ability to thrive in fast-moving environments • Prior exposure to engineering cultures prioritizing operational excellence, performance, and customer reliability at scale • Experience in distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, edge networking, or query engines preferred • Experience operating systems at petabyte scale or microsecond latency budgets preferred • On-call ownership of mission-critical production services preferred • Interest in Solana, blockchain infrastructure, or real-time financial systems preferred • Open source contributions or technical writing preferred • Mix of large and small company experience strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Market-leading salary • Meaningful equity • Generous vacation • Wellness budgets • Support for learning and travel • Flexible, fully distributed team • Remote-first flexibility