DevOps Engineer (DST)

Job description

About Logos (λ)

Logos (λ) is a movement of technologists, creatives, strategists, and activists working together to build a sovereign, people-owned technology stack that revitalises civil society and protects digital liberties at scale.

This position is within the IFT Technical Services (IFT-TS) Distributed Systems Testing (DST) Team, a team that primarily supports Logos, while also contributing to other IFT projects.

The role

We are seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer to join the Institute of Free Technology - Technical Services, on the Distributed Systems Testing (IFT-TS DST) team. This role focuses on rigorously assessing the performance and reliability of IFT projects at scale, where Logos (λ) is one of them. Logos (λ) technology stack is composed of 3 main components:

- Logos (λ) Blockchain: Advanced privacy for a new era of decentralised applications and social institutions.

- Logos (λ) Messaging: Private peer‑to‑peer communication that resists surveillance and censorship.

- Logos (λ) Storage: Secure decentralised storage enabling fully decentralised apps and file sharing.

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to join our Distributed Systems Testing (DST) team. You’ll be responsible for designing and executing comprehensive evaluation strategies, leveraging both large-scale lab deployments and protocol behavior modeling scripts. Your expertise will be crucial in analyzing these complex distributed systems, automating intricate test scenarios, and providing in-depth insights into system behaviors. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical data into actionable recommendations. Proficiency in containerization, cloud technologies, and distributed systems principles is essential.

Key responsibilities

- Design, configure, and optimize Kubernetes clusters to support large-scale experiments and benchmarks of P2P technologies.

- Continuously improve cluster scalability and resource utilization, enabling increasingly complex deployments and experiments.

- Set up, maintain, and optimize supporting infrastructure such as monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).

- Collaborate with DST researchers and engineers to streamline experimentation workflows and make analysis easier and more reproducible.

- Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows to increase reliability and reduce overhead.

- Troubleshoot, profile, and tune distributed workloads to ensure accurate and performant benchmarking.

- Identify, reproduce, and debug complex issues in distributed systems, working closely with Logos development teams.

You ideally will have

- Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production or research environments.

- Hands-on experience with libp2p/gossipsub

- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking (especially relevant to distributed/P2P systems).

- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaLogs, etc.).

- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.).

- Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (ideally Python).

- Interest in or experience with distributed systems, P2P networks, or blockchain technologies.

- Experience with networks and systems programming.

- Excellent written and conversational communication skills.

- Alignment with our core values and principles.

Bonus points

- Hands-on experience with projects in the Logos collective.

- Background in performance benchmarking, scalability testing, or systems research.

- Contributions to open source projects.

- Experience working for an open-source organization.

Interview Process

- Interview with our POps team

- Interview with team member from the IFT-TS DST team

- Pair programming & discussion of results

- Interview with IFT-TS team lead