Kubernetes & Distributed Systems Engineer (Benchmarking)

remote work; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Logos (λ) is building a sovereign, people-owned technology stack to revitalise civil society and protect digital liberties at scale. This role, part of the Institute of Free Technology Technical Services, focuses on evaluating performance and reliability of Logos and other IFT projects.

You will design and optimize Kubernetes clusters for large-scale experiments, improve scalability, and collaborate with researchers to ensure reproducible results.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux, and networking.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
• Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform, Ansible or Helm.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Interest in distributed systems, P2P networks, or blockchain.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and optimize Kubernetes clusters for large-scale experiments.
• Improve cluster scalability and resource utilization for complex deployments.
• Set up, maintain, and optimize monitoring, logging, and observability stacks.
• Collaborate with researchers to streamline experimentation workflows.
• Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows for reliability.
• Troubleshoot and tune distributed workloads for accurate benchmarking.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Linux systems

Networking

Distributed systems

Python

Docker

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

VictoriaLogs

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Logos (λ) is building a sovereign, people-owned technology stack to revitalise civil society and protect digital liberties at scale. This role, part of the Institute of Free Technology Technical Services, focuses on evaluating performance and reliability of Logos and other IFT projects.

You will design and optimize Kubernetes clusters for large-scale experiments, improve scalability, and collaborate with researchers to ensure reproducible results.