DevOps Engineer (Vac DST)

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. - 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 libp2p or 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 - Take-home assignment and discussion of results - Interview with IFT-TS team lead