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title: 'DevOps Engineer (Vac DST) at IFT'
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# DevOps Engineer (Vac DST) at IFT 

- **Company:** IFT 
- **Location:** Global
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iftother/jobs/8259660

## Job description

## About Logos (λ)

https://logos.co/ 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

## About IFT 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Institute of Free Technology (IFT) is a mission-driven Web3 tech startup studio and venture builder that develops, funds, and scales open-source public goods—including the Logos ecosystem of decentralized infrastructure protocols—to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Non-profit / Venture Studio; funded by substantial historical capital deployment)
- **Headquarters**: Distributed / Remote-first (no central physical HQ; team is globally distributed)
- **Founded**: 2017 (as Status) / IFT as current entity structure
- **Founders**: Carl, Jarrad Hope, and others (Status co-founders)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Web3 Infrastructure, Decentralized Communication Protocols, Blockchain Technology, Open-Source Software Development
- **Target customers**: Developers, dApp builders, Web3 projects, network states, and privacy-conscious end-users (B2B primarily, B2C via consumer apps like Status)
- **Mission**: To build public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age, guided by principles of liberty, censorship resistance, security, privacy, and inclusivity.

## Products & Services
- **Logos (logos.co)**: A movement supporting the development of the decentralized web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack empowers users while upholding civil liberties. Includes:
  - **Status (status.app)**: An open-source, privacy-focused messaging app and mobile browser for the Ethereum network.
  - **Status Network (status.network)**: The underlying decentralized communication network.
  - **Nimbus (nimbus.team)**: A lightweight, efficient Ethereum execution and consensus client.
  - **Keycard (keycard.tech)**: A hardware wallet for secure key management.
  - **Waku**: A decentralized, privacy-preserving peer-to-peer messaging protocol (under Logos).
  - **Vac**: A research and development team building secure, private messaging protocols (including MLS-based group messaging).
- **IFT Venture Studio**: Provides financial, technical, legal, people operations, and brand-building support to incubate new startups from idea to market.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private non-profit entity)
- **Key Metric**: Team of 200+ core contributors (as of 2026), plus a growing community of contributors
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by substantial historical capital deployment from Web3-native angels, VCs, family offices, and institutional allocators. The organization is actively fundraising for Logos, targeting crypto VCs, HNWIs, and family offices with a thesis in privacy infrastructure.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across engineering, research, and fundraising roles; expanding the Logos ecosystem; developing frontier decentralized messaging protocols (MLS, Waku); growing headcount from a smaller base to 200+ core contributors.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Mission-driven focus**: Unlike for-profit Web3 projects, IFT is a non-profit dedicated to public goods, which attracts top talent aligned with its principles.
- **Full-stack venture studio model**: Provides comprehensive support (tech, legal, ops, brand) to incubate projects from concept to market, creating a strong ecosystem of interoperable protocols.
- **Deep technical moat**: Building frontier technologies (decentralized group messaging over MLS, peer-to-peer protocols, zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum cryptography) with no established playbooks, giving them a first-mover advantage.
- **Strong brand and community**: Status and Logos have established credibility in the Web3 space, with a loyal community and a clear manifesto.

## Strategic Focus
- **Logos ecosystem growth**: The primary current priority is building and scaling the Logos stack of decentralized infrastructure protocols.
- **Fundraising for Logos**: Actively raising capital from institutional investors, family offices, and crypto VCs to fund the next phase of development.
- **Decentralized messaging**: Advancing the state of the art in private, decentralized group messaging (MLS, Waku) as a core pillar of the freer internet vision.
- **Open-source development**: Continuing to build all technology as public goods, with minimal hierarchy and a globally distributed, asynchronous team.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Highly mission-driven, with a strong emphasis on liberty, privacy, and decentralization. The team is described as flat, with minimal hierarchy, no fixed work hours, and a high degree of autonomy.
- **Remote-first**: Fully distributed team (200+ contributors) across the globe. Work is async and remote-friendly.
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers have real ownership over frontier tech work. The environment is described as "small team, many hats" where contributors solve hard problems without established playbooks.
- **Compensation**: Competitive, negotiable base compensation, paid in any mix of fiat/crypto. Performance bonuses for certain roles. Compensation ranges visible for some roles (e.g., $81k–$150k for engineering roles).
- **Notable perks**: Work on truly cutting-edge Web3 infrastructure; contribute to open-source public goods; be part of a movement, not just a company; high autonomy and flexibility.

## Sources
1. [Greenhouse Jobs Board - IFT](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iftother)
2. [IFT Website](https://free.technology/)
3. [Logos Website](https://logos.co/)
4. [Decentralised Messaging Engineer - Rust Job Posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iftother/jobs/7896004)
5. [Senior Investor Relations & Fundraising Manager Job Posting (via EU Remote Jobs)](https://euremotejobs.com/job/senior-investor-relations-fundraising-manager/)
6. [IFT Jobs on RemoteOtter](https://remoteotter.com/company/ift/jobs/remote-community-fundraising-lead_9824e51d-2554-48ff-a2a0-50f04f1497a1)
7. [IFT Jobs on Web3 Career](https://web3.career/web3-companies/iftother)
8. [Status Website](https://status.app/)
9. [Nimbus Website](https://nimbus.team/)
10. [Keycard Website](https://keycard.tech/en)

## Other roles at IFT 

- [Head of Business Development - Logos Ecosystem](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-business-development-logos-ecosystem-ift-global-8027hwvy98vr) — Global
- [Volunteer position: Logos Circles Activist Builder](https://feeny.ai/job/volunteer-position-logos-circles-activist-builder-ift-global-sve55jvbhy0a) — Global
- [Volunteer position: Logos Circles Organiser](https://feeny.ai/job/volunteer-position-logos-circles-organiser-ift-global-czssxf1eejsf) — Global
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