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🕒 May 13

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Jito Labs

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1 - 10 employees

💰 $10M Series A on 2022-08

Blockchain • Software

Jito Labs is a company that develops MEV (Miner Extractable Value) software for the Solana blockchain network. Their tools are designed to optimize the performance of the Solana blockchain by enabling validators, searchers, and stakers to improve trade efficiency and maximize profits. Jito offers products like the Block Engine, Bundles, and ShredStream, providing ways for validators to earn more from traders' Bundles while enhancing the decentralization and health of the Solana network. They offer a liquid staking pool and strive to leverage MEV for the benefit of the network, minimizing negative impacts on other users and applications on Solana.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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