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Jito Labs · 2 weeks ago

Senior Systems Engineer - Performance

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$200K/yr - $230K/yr

5+ years exp

Jito Labs is architecting the future of high-performance distributed systems on Solana. They are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to build critical infrastructure, focusing on performance and reliability within the Solana ecosystem.

BlockchainInformation TechnologyOpen Source

Responsibilities

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

Reason about CPU performance, memory, I/O, and scheduling under real-world load

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

Improve system reliability through careful design, observability, and fault isolation

Contribute performance improvements upstream (Solana / OS / QEMU related components)

Qualification

Linux systems engineeringSystems-level programmingPerformance engineeringProfilingTracing toolsNetwork performance debuggingCPU microarchitectureVirtualization technologiesBlockchain infrastructureClear communication