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

- **Company:** Logos
- **Location:** Global
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/logos/jobs/8259659

## 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 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 Logos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Logos is a movement and technology stack building a modular, privacy-by-default decentralized internet infrastructure—encompassing messaging, storage, and blockchain layers—to enable network states and defend civil liberties.
- **Entity Type**: Private (open-source project; funded by the Logos community/ecosystem; not a traditional VC-backed startup)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first, global (no single physical HQ; team distributed worldwide)
- **Founded**: 2020 (original protocols predate; consolidated under the Logos brand in 2025)
- **Founders**: Not publicly attributed to individual founders; stewarded by the Logos community and core contributors

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Decentralized infrastructure / Web3 / Privacy-preserving technology
- Target customers: Developers building decentralized applications (dApps), protocol engineers, privacy-focused organizations, network state communities
- Mission: To lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states, upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms through private-by-default, permissionless infrastructure

## Products & Services
- **[Logos Core](https://press.logos.co/article/2025-dev-retrospective)**: A modular, plugin-based runtime that unifies development and deployment across the Logos stack. Nodes discover and load modules dynamically (Blockchain, Messaging, Storage) into a single environment.
- **[Messaging (formerly Waku)](https://blog.logos.co/article/logos-as-an-operating-system)**: A private, peer-to-peer communications layer supporting decentralized group messaging (via MLS/RFC 9420), metadata minimization, and offline-first capabilities. Currently the most mature component, integrated into Status app, Safe Harbour, and TACo.
- **[Storage (formerly Codex)](https://blog.logos.co/article/logos-as-an-operating-system)**: Durable, censorship-resistant data availability layer for storing and retrieving data without central intermediaries.
- **[Blockchain (formerly Nomos)](https://blog.logos.co/article/logos-as-an-operating-system)**: A privacy-preserving Layer 1 that anchors execution, settlement, and coordination across the stack.
- **[AnonComms](https://press.logos.co/article/2025-dev-retrospective)**: A component focused on reducing metadata leakage through mixnets, capability discovery (via libp2p Kademlia DHT), and privacy-preserving payment protocols.
- **[Logos Testnet v0.1](https://blog.logos.co/article/march-2026)**: First integrated testnet (March 2026) bundling all core modules into a live environment for developers to run nodes, experiment, and build.
- **[Logos Builder Hub](https://blog.logos.co/article/march-2026)**: Developer portal with documentation, RFP process, sample apps, Lambda Prizes, and support from core devs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (open-source project; no traditional equity valuation)
- **Key Metric**: Testnet v0.1 live as of March 2026; Messaging protocols adopted by prominent projects (Status, Safe Harbour, TACo); active developer community
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not funded by traditional VCs; ecosystem partners include Status, Encode Club (co-host of Privacy Builders Bootcamp), and various Web3 projects integrating Logos messaging
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Consolidated three previously independent protocols (Waku, Codex, Nomos) into a unified stack in 2025 [press.logos.co](https://press.logos.co/article/2025-dev-retrospective)
  - First integrated testnet launched March 2026 [blog.logos.co](https://blog.logos.co/article/march-2026)
  - Launched Privacy Builders Bootcamp with Encode Club (April 2026) [blog.logos.co](https://blog.logos.co/article/march-2026)
  - Active hiring for engineering roles (Rust messaging engineers, etc.) indicating team growth
  - Messaging protocols refined through 2025 with production deployments

## Competitive Advantages
- **Privacy by default**: Entire stack designed around privacy, not as an afterthought—contrasts with most Web3 projects that prioritize transparency over confidentiality
- **Modular integration**: Unlike fragmented ecosystems, Logos offers a unified runtime where messaging, storage, and blockchain work together out of the box
- **Decentralized group messaging (MLS)**: Working on frontier problems like decentralized MLS (RFC 9420) with multiple stewards—a problem few have solved for p2p networks
- **No single point of capture**: Open-source, permissionless, and designed to resist control by any entity or jurisdiction
- **Real-world adoption**: Messaging layer already used in production by Status (active user base) and other projects, proving technical viability

## Strategic Focus
- **2026 priorities**: Stabilizing the integrated testnet, improving developer experience (documentation, SDKs, Logos Core runtime), and expanding the builder ecosystem
- **Messaging roadmap**: Building capability discovery over libp2p Kademlia DHT, libp2p-based mixnet with Sybil/DoS protections, delivering de-MLS for group messaging, and privacy-preserving payment protocol
- **Developer onboarding**: Phased documentation releases (operator guides, developer guides), Privacy Builders Bootcamp, and Lambda Prizes to attract builders
- **Long-term vision**: Transition from protocol development to a self-sustaining network state infrastructure that anyone can deploy and extend

## Why Work Here
- **Frontier technical challenges**: Work on problems that don't have established playbooks—decentralized MLS, privacy-preserving mixnets, post-quantum cryptography integration
- **Remote-first, async culture**: Global team operating asynchronously; no office requirement; ideal for self-motivated engineers
- **Open-source ethos**: Contribute to public goods infrastructure; work is visible, auditable, and available to all
- **Small team, high ownership**: Engineers wear many hats, own significant parts of the stack, and influence protocol design directly
- **Values-aligned work**: The [Logos manifesto](https://logos.co/manifesto/) explicitly ties technical work to civil liberties and human rights—meaningful mission for privacy-conscious engineers
- **Compensation**: Negotiable, paid in mix of fiat/crypto; competitive for open-source/Web3 roles
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on Rust, cryptography, peer-to-peer systems, and open specifications; collaboration with other decentralized projects

## Sources
1. [Job posting for Decentralised Messaging Engineer - Rust](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/logos/jobs/7893070)
2. [Logos FAQ](https://faq.logos.xyz/)
3. [State of the Logos Network: March 2026](https://blog.logos.co/article/march-2026)
4. [The Logos Tech Stack: An Operating System for Sovereignty](https://blog.logos.co/article/logos-as-an-operating-system)
5. [Logos Dev Update: What's Next for 2026](https://press.logos.co/article/2025-dev-retrospective)
6. [Logos Manifesto](https://logos.co/manifesto/)
7. [Logos Builder Hub](https://builder-hub.logos.co/)

## Other roles at Logos

- [Head of Business Development - Logos Ecosystem](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-business-development-logos-ecosystem-logos-global-zhzzfte86emn) — Global
- [Volunteer position: Logos Circles Activist Builder](https://feeny.ai/job/volunteer-position-logos-circles-activist-builder-logos-global-3sksrhzd18gr) — Global
- [Volunteer position: Logos Circles Organiser](https://feeny.ai/job/volunteer-position-logos-circles-organiser-logos-global-5ra5rrz67p39) — Global