Senior DNS Engineer

digitalocean98; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Conference reimbursement

Online learning catalog access

Flexible time off

Employee assistance program

Locally tailored benefits

Job summary

digitalocean98 is seeking a senior engineer to join a networking-focused team building the control plane behind a managed DNS product. You will own parts of the service end-to-end and collaborate across networking to evolve a reliable, high-performance platform.

The role requires Go proficiency, API contract leadership, and hands-on Linux deployment with a focus on scalable, high-performance systems. Remote role with strong cloud, containerization, and CI/CD experience.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications backed by databases and APIs.
• Track record of leading work across multiple teams to define API contracts.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) virtual and bare-metal hosts.
• Proficiency in Go and writing unit tests.
• Familiarity with designing and developing high-performance systems.
• Some exposure to DNS and the networking stack, or a strong willingness to learn, plus experience with cloud development, containerization, virtualization, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and optimize new services and tooling that run at scale and address performance and monitoring challenges.
• Collaborate with neighboring networking teams to shape the next generation of products and services for a developer community.
• Maintain and improve existing product offerings, proposing creative fixes for recurring pain points.
• Strengthen tooling and processes used to ship robust, mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
• Contribute to architectural best practices and help the team adopt sound development standards.

Skills

API design

Team leadership

Go

Unit testing

High-performance systems

DNS/networking knowledge

Cloud development

CI/CD

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Consul

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

Lightstep

SQL

Chef

Git

Jira

DNS

Ubuntu

Job description

Role overview

Join a networking-focused engineering team as a senior engineer working on the control plane behind a managed DNS product. The role centers on building and operating APIs that customers depend on, owning parts of the service end-to-end, and partnering across the networking organization to evolve a reliable, high-performance platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and optimize new services and tooling that run at scale and address performance and monitoring challenges.
• Collaborate with neighboring networking teams to shape the next generation of products and services for a developer community.
• Maintain and improve existing product offerings, proposing creative fixes for recurring pain points.
• Strengthen tooling and processes used to ship robust, mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
• Contribute to architectural best practices and help the team adopt sound development standards.
• Work with a stack that includes Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, Kubernetes, and DNS.

Requirements

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications backed by databases and APIs.
• Track record of leading work across multiple teams to define API contracts.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) virtual and bare-metal hosts.
• Proficiency in Go and writing unit tests.
• Familiarity with designing and developing high-performance systems.
• Some exposure to DNS and the networking stack, or a strong willingness to learn, plus experience with cloud development, containerization, virtualization, and CI/CD pipelines.

Nice to have

• Building distributed, high-demand systems with gRPC.
• Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka.
• A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role with a base salary range of $139,200 to $174,000, plus potential bonus and equity programs.
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, with broad access to an online learning catalog.
• Flexible time off, an employee assistance program, and locally tailored benefits.