Distributed Systems Testing Engineer | Kubernetes & Cloud

Inclusively Remote; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Logos (λ) is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the Institute of Free Technology – Technical Services, DST team. You will design, deploy, and optimize Kubernetes clusters for large-scale experiments, and automate testing workflows across distributed systems.

This role requires strong cloud, Linux, and networking skills, plus a passion for open-source tech and privacy-preserving protocols. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to model protocol behavior, implement

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production or research environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python).
• Interest in 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.

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.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Linux systems

Networking

Monitoring & observability

Distributed systems concepts

Scripting languages

Communication skills

Open-source collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Python

Job description

Logos (λ) is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the Institute of Free Technology – Technical Services, DST team. You will design, deploy, and optimize Kubernetes clusters for large-scale experiments, and automate testing workflows across distributed systems.

This role requires strong cloud, Linux, and networking skills, plus a passion for open-source tech and privacy-preserving protocols. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to model protocol behavior, implement