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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.

You’ll be responsible for designing and executing comprehensive evaluation strategies, leveraging both large-scale lab deployments and protocol behaviour modelling 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, implement, and maintain sophisticated tools for analyzing distributed systems at scale, ensuring robust and efficient testing processes. Orchestrate and automate large-scale deployments to rigorously validate the functionality, performance, and scalability of complex distributed systems. Identify, document, reproduce, and troubleshoot intricate issues in distributed environments, collaborating closely with IFT project teams to resolve challenges. Develop a comprehensive understanding of IFT project protocols and components to provide insightful analyses that drive improvements and inform decision-making. Create and maintain scripts that model protocol behavior, utilizing these models to validate and sanity-check large-scale deployment runs. Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and POSIX-like systems

You ideally will have:

Solid experience with scripting languages like Python. Experience with statistical analysis tools, like pandas, seaborn. Experience with systems programming languages like Go, Rust. Understanding of network behaviors (libp2p, gossipsub, p2p networks). Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and POSIX-like systems. Excellent written and conversational communication skills. Alignment with our core values and principles.

Bonus points:

Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p. Experience in blockchain technology. Experience with systems programming languages like Nim. Experience working for an open-source organization.

Hiring process:

Intro call with our Talent team Interview with team member from the IFT-TS DST team Live coding interview with team member from the IFT-TS DST team Interview with IFT-TS lead

Compensation:   We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.