DevOps Engineer (Vac DST)
Logos
WorldwideremotePosted 6 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Role: Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer / DevOps Engineer
- Team: IFT-TS Distributed Systems Testing (DST)
Role overview
Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web, building a sovereign, people-owned technology stack comprising a Blockchain, Messaging, and Storage system to revitalize civil society and protect digital liberties. The Institute of Free Technology - Technical Services (IFT-TS) is seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer for the Distributed Systems Testing (DST) team. This role focuses on rigorously assessing the performance and reliability of IFT projects (including Logos) at scale by designing and executing evaluation strategies, leveraging large-scale lab deployments and protocol behavior modeling scripts.
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.
- Analyze complex distributed systems, automate intricate test scenarios, and provide in-depth insights into system behaviors.
- Troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical data into actionable recommendations.
Requirements
- 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.
- Proficiency in containerization, cloud technologies, and distributed systems principles.
Nice to have
- 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.
Additional details
- The position is within the IFT Technical Services (IFT-TS) Distributed Systems Testing (DST) Team, which primarily supports Logos while contributing to other IFT projects.
- 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.
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