Principal Software Engineer

DomainTools; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k match

Life insurance

Flexible PTO

Well-being benefits

Job summary

DomainTools is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. You will design and build a foundation for real-time internet-scale data processing and management across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will provide technical leadership, shape architectural standards, and collaborate across the organization to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable data systems for threat defense and investigation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software/hardware/systems engineering or leadership.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale orchestration systems.
• Experience with major internet protocols and standards (DNS, Whois, RDAP).
• Passion for internet security.
• Ability to cross organizational boundaries to solve problems.
• Strong understanding of architectural trade-offs at scale.
• Technologist with broad knowledge of software, systems, and operations.
• Able to defend designs from architectural first principles.
• Adapt designs to the realities of a complex business.
• Tenacity, creativity, and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a foundation for real-time internet-scale data processing and management.
• Design and develop a platform for software and infrastructure management spanning cloud and on-prem systems.
• Develop and maintain observability tooling including logging, metrics, and alerting spanning cloud and on-prem systems.
• Define technical standards and best practices as a leader in the engineering organization.
• Reconcile complex, conflicting distributed architecture spanning multiple companies over multiple decades.
• Provide technical leadership within DomainTools broadly.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud & on-prem

DNS/RDAP

Security

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural trade-offs

First-principles design

Leadership

Job description

DomainTools is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team.

Our team's mission is to accelerate cross-organizational collaboration as we confront the challenges of collecting, ingesting, processing, searching, alerting and contextualizing internet-scale data for use in threat defense and investigation.

DomainTools transforms vast amounts of streaming information about internet infrastructure into real-time threat intelligence. As an engineer on the Architecture team, you'll work across the company to design, develop, and improve upon the foundations of the company's technical strategy, to ensure that we can continue to design, develop, and operate internet-scale data systems efficiently, reliably, and securely.

Our work touches on every aspect of the system design life-cycle at DomainTools, from early technology evaluation to system design to infrastructure management and operations.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility position that requires tenacity, creativity, and strong collaboration skills.

If you're passionate about making the impossible possible in order to make the internet a safer place, we want to hear from you!

Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop a foundation for real-time internet-scale data processing and management.
• Design and develop a platform for software and infrastructure management spanning cloud and on-prem systems.
• Develop and maintain observability tooling including logging, metrics, and alerting spanning cloud and on-prem systems.
• Define technical standards and best practices as a leader in the engineering organization.
• Reconcile complex, conflicting distributed architecture spanning multiple companies over multiple decades.
• Provide technical leadership within DomainTools broadly.

DomainTools is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team.

Our team's mission is to accelerate cross-organizational collaboration as we confront the challenges of collecting, ingesting, processing, searching, alerting and contextualizing internet-scale data for use in threat defense and investigation.

DomainTools transforms vast amounts of streaming information about internet infrastructure into real-time threat intelligence. As an engineer on the Architecture team, you'll work across the company to design, develop, and improve upon the foundations of the company's technical strategy, to ensure that we can continue to design, develop, and operate internet-scale data systems efficiently, reliably, and securely.

Our work touches on every aspect of the system design life-cycle at DomainTools, from early technology evaluation to system design to infrastructure management and operations.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility position that requires tenacity, creativity, and strong collaboration skills.

If you're passionate about making the impossible possible in order to make the internet a safer place, we want to hear from you!

Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop a foundation for real-time internet-scale data processing and management.
• Design and develop a platform for software and infrastructure management spanning cloud and on-prem systems.
• Develop and maintain observability tooling including logging, metrics, and alerting spanning cloud and on-prem systems.
• Define technical standards and best practices as a leader in the engineering organization.
• Reconcile complex, conflicting distributed architecture spanning multiple companies over multiple decades.
• Provide technical leadership within DomainTools broadly.

Requirements

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Must not only to dive deep into difficult technical problems, but bring others along for the ride as well.
• 7+ years experience in some combination of software/hardware/systems engineering or leadership in technical operations.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale orchestration systems.
• Experience working with major internet protocols and standards (DNS, Whois, RDAP, etc.)
• Experience with and passion for working in the internet security space.
• Experience stepping across organizational boundaries to solve problems.
• Strong understanding of architectural trade-offs at different orders of magnitude of scale.
• Strong technologist, broadly conversant in modern approaches to software engineering, systems engineering, operations, and infrastructure management.
• Able to articulate and defend designs from architectural first-principals
• Able to adapt those designs to the realities of a complex business.
• Strong desire to solve seemingly insurmountable technological and organizational problems.

Compensation{{:}}

$180K - $230K base salary, plus a 15% annual bonus

Benefits

DomainTools offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees that includes fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums, a 401k retirement plan with company matching, basic life insurance, flexible PTO and additional well-being benefits.

• fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums
• a 401k retirement plan with company matching
• basic life insurance
• flexible PTO
• additional well-being benefits

DomainTools embraces diversity, equity and inclusion to its fullest as an equal opportunity employer. We build our teams so creativity and innovation can flourish. We believe inclusivity and equity fosters innovation and growth, and we harness this mindset to drive a culture that serves our employees and our customers. We encourage people of all backgrounds, ages, perspectives and skill sets to apply; and do not discriminate based on age, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.