Jito Labs

Director of Engineering

Jito Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $275,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsRust

About the role

  • Build world-class engineering operations (80% of your focus)
  • Set engineering standards: Define and implement standards for code quality, documentation, testing coverage, and architectural review
  • Create clarity and alignment: Establish sprint planning, roadmap processes, and priority-setting frameworks so the team operates with clear direction
  • Own the release process: Design deployment procedures with proper testing, monitoring, and incident response protocols
  • Enable leadership focus: Take ownership of day-to-day technical decision-making and engineering operations, allowing company leadership to focus on strategic initiatives
  • Lead and scale the team (20% of your focus)
  • Mentor engineers and help them grow their skills and impact
  • Build team culture and rituals that support high performance
  • Foster collaboration between product, operations, and engineering
  • Eventually recruit and hire as we scale beyond our current team

Requirements

  • Proven operator: You've built and run engineering teams of 10-50+ people at high-growth startups or infrastructure companies.
  • First principles thinker: You adapt best practices from previous roles rather than copy-paste them. You understand the "why" behind processes and tailor solutions to our stage, team size, and needs - not implement a FAANG engineering playbook at a 20-person startup.
  • Process builder: You've shipped processes for software development from scratch—CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment pipelines, on-call rotations, metrics, and more.
  • Technical credibility: You can review code, debug production issues, and earn respect from strong engineers. You've written production code in the last 3-5 years and are not afraid to dive into challenge issues.
  • Startup velocity: You move fast, prioritize ruthlessly, and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty.
  • Low ego: You're here to solve problems, not collect a title. You'll write code, fix bugs, and do whatever it takes.
  • Nice-to-haves
  • Experience with Rust, distributed systems, or high-performance infrastructure
  • Background in crypto/blockchain infrastructure
  • Previously scaled engineering from chaos to order at a fast-growing startup
  • Operated in extremely high-stakes environments where downtime costs millions
Benefits
  • Above market compensation and multiple forms of equity
  • All-expenses-paid team retreats and conferences
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Weekly meal voucher
  • Salary based on experience

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
code qualitydocumentationtesting coveragearchitectural reviewCI/CDtesting frameworksdeployment pipelineson-call rotationsdebuggingproduction code
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityprioritizationteam culture buildingcommunicationprocess buildinglow ego