Release Engineer

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.

• •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.

• •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

• •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.