DevOps Engineer (Vac DST)
Institute of Free Technology
Skill Required
Key highlights
- Role: Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer / DevOps Engineer
- Focus: Performance and reliability of P2P technologies and distributed systems
Role overview
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. The Logos (λ) technology stack is composed of three main components: Logos (λ) Blockchain (advanced privacy for decentralised applications and social institutions), Logos (λ) Messaging (private peer‑to‑peer communication that resists surveillance and censorship), and Logos (λ) Storage (secure decentralised storage enabling fully decentralised apps and file sharing). We are seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer / DevOps Engineer to join the Institute of Free Technology - Technical Services (IFT-TS), on the Distributed Systems Testing (DST) team. This role focuses on rigorously assessing the performance and reliability of IFT projects at scale, including Logos (λ). The successful candidate will design and execute comprehensive evaluation strategies, leverage large-scale lab deployments and protocol behavior modeling scripts, automate intricate test scenarios, and provide in-depth insights into system behaviors while working closely with cross-functional teams.
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.
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 is essential.
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
- 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.
- 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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