Principal Software Engineer - Real-Time Internet-Scale

DomainTools; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical, dental & vision

401k with company matching

Generous PTO

Job summary

DomainTools is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. You will shape the foundations of internet-scale data systems, spanning real-time processing, observability, and platform-wide tooling across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will lead architectural decisions, collaborate across teams, and drive reliable, secure operations while advancing the company’s data strategy and threat intelligence capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software/hardware/systems engineering or leadership in technical operations.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale orchestration systems.
• Experience with major internet protocols (DNS, Whois, RDAP).
• Experience in internet security space.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries to solve problems.
• Strong understanding of architectural trade-offs at scale.
• Able to defend designs from architectural principles and adapt to complex business realities.

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 across cloud and on-prem.
• Define technical standards and best practices as a leader in the engineering organization.
• Reconcile distributed architecture across multiple companies and decades.
• Provide technical leadership within DomainTools broadly.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Leadership

Networking protocols

Security

Architectural trade-offs

Communication

Cloud & on-prem

Job description

DomainTools is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. You will shape the foundations of internet-scale data systems, spanning real-time processing, observability, and platform-wide tooling across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will lead architectural decisions, collaborate across teams, and drive reliable, secure operations while advancing the company’s data strategy and threat intelligence capabilities.