Logos
Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer
Job Summary
This role involves assessing the performance and reliability of decentralized web projects through designing and executing evaluation strategies. The candidate will develop tools, automate deployments, analyze complex distributed systems, and troubleshoot issues. Proficiency in scripting, containerization, cloud technologies, and understanding network protocols is essential. The position offers a chance to contribute to innovative, scalable decentralized technologies and involves collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Required Skills
Job Description
Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.
About Vac
Vac builds public good protocols for the decentralised web. We do applied research based on which we build protocols, libraries and publications.
The role
We are seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer to join the Vac DST team. This role focuses on rigorously assessing the performance and reliability of IFT projects at scale. 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 analysing these complex distributed systems, automating intricate test scenarios, and providing in-depth insights into system behaviours.
Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical data into actionable recommendations. Proficiency in containerisation, cloud technologies, and distributed systems principles is essential.
This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the robustness and scalability of IFT projects, contributing to the development of next-generation decentralised technologies.
Key responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain sophisticated tools for analysing 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 behaviour, utilising 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 Nim, Go, Rust.
- Understanding of network behaviours (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 working for an open-source organisation.
Hiring process
- Interview with our POps team
- Interview with team member from the Vac DST team
- Take home assignment & interview with team member from the Vac DST team
- Interview with Vac team lead
Compensation
The expected compensation range for this role is negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.
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