Senior DNS Engineer

Linuxcareers; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible time off policy

Conference and training reimbursement

LinkedIn Learning access

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior DNS Engineer to join the DNS Products team, where you will develop control plane software for DNS services. You will design and build APIs, troubleshoot customer issues, optimize services running at scale, and help the team own product offerings end-to- end.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable services, and contribute to monitoring and performance improvements while helping maintain reliable, robust systems.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and APIs.
• Experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) based virtual and bare metal hosts.
• Experience with Go programming language and unit tests.
• Domain knowledge of DNS and Networking stack, or strong willingness to learn.
• Experience with cloud development, containerization, and virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Implement, test, and optimize new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
• Work with other teams within Networking to build next-generation products and services for the developer community.
• Support existing products and contribute creative solutions to customer pain points.
• Improve tooling and processes to ship robust, mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
• Establish best practices for development and architecture across the team.

Skills

Full-stack development

Go programming

DNS & Networking knowledge

Cloud development

Containerization & virtualization

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

gRPC

Temporal

Kafka

CI/CD

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior DNS Engineer to join the DNS Products team, where you will develop control plane software for DNS services. You will design and build APIs, troubleshoot customer issues, optimize services running at scale, and help the team own product offerings end-to- end.

What You’ll Do

• Implement, test, and optimize new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems
• Work with other teams within Networking to build next-generation products and services for the developer community
• Support existing products and contribute creative solutions to customer pain points
• Improve tooling and processes to ship robust, mission-critical parts of the ecosystem
• Establish best practices for development and architecture across the team

What You Need

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and APIs
• Experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) based virtual and bare metal hosts
• Experience with Go programming language and unit tests
• Domain knowledge of DNS and Networking stack, or strong willingness to learn
• Experience with cloud development, containerization, and virtualization

Nice to Have

• Experience using gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
• Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka
• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or relevant equivalent experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)

$139,200–$174,000 per year, plus bonus based on company and individual performance, equity compensation including grants upon hire and Employee Stock Purchase Program access.

• Employee Assistance Program
• flexible time off policy
• conference and training reimbursement
• LinkedIn Learning access
• competitive benefits package