Senior Systems Engineer - Performance

Jito Labs

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$200,000–$230,000/year

Benefits

Job Description

Systems & Infrastructure Engineering:

  • Build and operate high-performance Linux systems for transaction processing and block building
  • Work with virtualization and isolation technologies (KVM, QEMU, TEEs)
  • Debug and optimize interactions between user-space systems and the Linux kernel

Performance Engineering:

  • Build high-performance systems for processing and analyzing on-chain data
  • Optimize critical paths in our infrastructure and Solana core (Agave & Firedancer) to reduce latency and increase throughput
  • Develop new tools for monitoring and improving network efficiency

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of systems-level programming in C, C++, or Rust (we use Rust)
  • Deep experience with Linux systems engineering and performance-critical infrastructure
  • Proficiency with profiling and tracing tools: perf, flamegraphs, eBPF

About Jito Labs

Jito Labs is architecting the future of high-performance distributed systems on Solana. They are a small, profitable company with product-market fit and focus on long-term impact.

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