Release Engineer

## About Jito **Jito** builds the Market Layer of Solana: the execution systems, capital markets, and incentive mechanisms that power real markets on-chain. Our products process billions in daily transaction value, Jito-Solana runs on the vast majority of Solana’s active stake, BAM is redefining how blocks get built, and JitoSOL is the leading liquid staking token on the network. Jito is a small team with product-market fit across multiple product lines and years of runway.

### Responsibilities - Own and execute software upgrades and releases across Jito infrastructure, including testnet upgrades, mainnet canaries, staged rollouts, and patches. - Own the operational release checklist from preflight validation through deployment, monitoring, rollback readiness, and post-release follow-up. - Keep release playbooks, runbooks, deployment checklists, and rollback procedures accurate and usable. - Coordinate version/config consistency across environments, services, and repositories. - Monitor releases in real time using dashboards, logs, alerts, and service-level health checks. - Contribute to incremental CI/CD, automation, and tooling improvements.

### Qualifications - 4+ years of experience in release engineering, deployment engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or similar production infrastructure roles. - High ownership and comfort working autonomously on a small team. - Experience with linux production deployment workflows, canary rollouts, rollback procedures, incident response, and operational monitoring. - Familiarity with Git-based release workflows, version management, branching, tagging, changelogs, and cross-repo coordination.

### Benefits - Above market compensation and multiple forms of equity - 100% of employee health benefits covered by employer - All-expenses-paid team retreats and conferences - Generous PTO - Weekly meal voucher

Jito Labs is the largest liquid staking protocol on Solana, enabling validators to earn rewards while securing the network. The company also builds a validator client that optimizes transaction ordering (MEV) on Solana, positioning itself as an economic growth engine for the ecosystem.