DevOps Engineer (Vac DST)

Real Work From Anywhere Ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Real Work From Anywhere Ltd. is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join the IFT-TS DST team, focusing on evaluating distributed systems at scale and building reproducible benchmark workflows.

You’ll design and run large Kubernetes clusters, automate infrastructure, and collaborate with researchers to derive actionable performance insights. Proficiency with cloud platforms, observability stacks (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki), and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) is essential, as is experience

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes clusters in production or research environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, P2P networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on with monitoring/logging stacks (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki) and IaC (Terraform/Ansible/Helm).
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages and automation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to translate data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and optimize Kubernetes clusters for large-scale experiments and benchmarks.
• Improve cluster scalability and resource utilization for complex deployments.
• Set up and maintain monitoring/observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki).
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to streamline experimentation workflows and reproducibility.
• Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows to improve reliability.
• Troubleshoot, profile, and tune distributed workloads for accurate benchmarking.
• Identify and debug issues in distributed systems with Logos development teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

P2P networks

Blockchain concepts

Python

Networking

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Automation

Team collaboration

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Linux

libp2p

Open source tooling

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.
• 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