Release Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and implement software upgrades and releases throughout the Jito infrastructure, which includes testnet upgrades, mainnet canaries, staged rollouts, and patches.

• Manage the operational release checklist from preflight validation all the way through deployment, monitoring, rollback readiness, and post-release follow-up.

• Ensure that release playbooks, runbooks, deployment checklists, and rollback procedures are precise and functional.

• Coordinate version and configuration consistency across various environments, services, and repositories.

• Monitor releases in real time utilizing dashboards, logs, alerts, and service-level health checks.

• Contribute to ongoing CI/CD, automation, and tooling enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in release engineering, deployment engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or comparable production infrastructure roles.

• Strong sense of ownership and comfort working independently within 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-repository coordination.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation above market standards along with various forms of equity.

• Complete coverage of employee health benefits by the employer.

• All-expenses-paid team retreats and conferences.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• Weekly meal vouchers.