Senior Software Engineer -- Low-Latency Systems
Jito Labs
Software Engineering
United States
Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2023
What we're looking for
Jito Labs is seeking a senior engineer to build the future of MEV and block building on Solana. We are looking for a creative and motivated engineer that can effectively wrangle problems with large design spaces and come up with simple and elegant solutions. The role is extremely dynamic and a place where low-level problem solvers will thrive.
Responsibilities
- Dive deep into the world of MEV and on-chain trading, understanding the end-to-end flow of transactions through the Solana network
- Collaborate with the team and customers to build higher performance, cutting edge features
- Drive features from inception to completion: architecture, implementation, instrumentation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Comfortably deep dive into performance bottlenecks and debug problems across the entire stack
Qualifications
- 5+ years of systems programming experience writing code in Rust, C, or C++
- Familiar with low latency, high performance and high reliability programming
- Experience shipping software and pushing to prod on a daily basis
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Glass-chewer: comfortable and excited to dive into tricky problems and using tools like valgrind and gdb to debug software problems
- Ability to balance the engineering-time tradeoff between perfect and good enough
- Worked at a <50 person startup
- Have an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to understand the relationship between business and engineering
Nice to have
- Familiar with running blockchain infrastructure
- Experience building or running MEV bots or trading bots on EVM, SVM, or CEXs
- HFT experience
Benefits
- $200-$240k (approximate) and multiple forms of equity
- Generous healthcare package & 401k benefits
- All-expenses-paid team retreats and conferences
- Unlimited PTO
- Weekly meal voucher
- WeWork membership
- Your choice of laptop
Jito Labs mission is to scale Solana through high-performance MEV infrastructure.
We’re a fast moving and ambitious team building infrastructure to increase the performance of Solana and maximize rewards for stakers and validators. We're well-capitalized and have experienced massive growth across multiple products in 2023, gaining market share faster than our competitors. Jito-Solana, our MEV validator client for Solana, has gained more than 70% of stake on Solana.
Come join our rockstar team of twelve to accelerate our growth!