Release Engineer

Jito Labs

Release Engineer managing software upgrades and releases in Jito’s blockchain infrastructure team. Focusing on operational execution across various high-stakes systems and repositories.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Linux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

release engineeringdeployment engineeringSREinfrastructure engineeringDevOpsplatform engineeringlinux production deploymentCI/CDautomationmonitoring

Soft Skills

high ownershipautonomous workteam collaboration