Senior Big Data & Distributed Systems Engineer

VeriSign, Inc.; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Verisign in Reston, VA is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Architecture and Infrastructure Team. You will design and implement systems to gather and analyze large data sets representing network traffic, DNS content, and web data, building scalable data pipelines that power operational insight.

The ideal candidate brings strong distributed systems expertise, hands-on coding in Java and Python, and a track record delivering resilient software in Agile environments with open-source tooling and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus substantial work experience (at least 12 years) or a Master’s with 10+ years in software engineering.
• 8+ years of software development in Unix/Linux environments.
• Expert programming in Java and/or Python.
• Experience with Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka).
• Familiarity with testing, performance tuning, and data migration methodologies.
• Experience with cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Apply Big Data solutions to real customer problems using web content and traffic data.
• Design, write, test, and maintain software for collecting, storing, analyzing and reporting on big data sets.
• Lead system verification, testing, and CI/CD processes in an Agile setting.
• Collaborate with architects, PMs, and operations to ensure data quality and interfaces.
• Lead incident response and drive continuous improvement across engineering practices.

Skills

Java

Python

Big Data

Linux/Unix

Distributed Systems

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 12 years OR Master’s + 10 years experience

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Kafka

Spark

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Verisign in Reston, VA is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Architecture and Infrastructure Team. You will design and implement systems to gather and analyze large data sets representing network traffic, DNS content, and web data, building scalable data pipelines that power operational insight.

The ideal candidate brings strong distributed systems expertise, hands-on coding in Java and Python, and a track record delivering resilient software in Agile environments with open-source tooling and