Senior DNS Infrastructure Engineer

Ll Oefentherapie; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to join the DNS Data Plane team. You will design, build, and operate high-performance DNS services that power critical infrastructure at a global scale, focusing on performance, reliability, and operational excellence.

You will own data plane components end to end, including architecture, testing, safe rollout, observability, and capacity planning. Work with control plane, security, SRE, and operations, while mentoring teammates to raise

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of experience building, managing, or operating large-scale distributed infrastructure in SaaS, cloud, or hybrid-cloud environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Linux operating systems.
• Proficiency in one or more of Go, C, Java, or Python, with the ability and interest to work across languages when needed.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, TCP/UDP, sockets, concurrency, and performance profiling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement DNS data plane components across authoritative and recursive request paths, emphasizing low-latency, high-throughput processing.
• Build services and libraries in Go, C, Java, or Python, selecting the appropriate language and approach for each component’s performance and operational requirements.
• Own data plane components end to end, including architecture, implementation, testing, safe rollout, observability, capacity planning, and ongoing operational health.
• Develop and maintain metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and practical on-call playbooks.
• Improve reliability through fault-tolerant design, graceful degradation, safe deployment practices, and proactive capacity planning.
• Collaborate with control plane, security, SRE, and operations teams to deliver end-to-end DNS platform improvements.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentorship, raising engineering standards across the team.
• Take ownership of production outcomes by proactively identifying and driving performance, reliability, security, and operational improvements.

Skills

DNS

Golang

Python

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to join the DNS Data Plane team. You will design, build, and operate high-performance DNS services that power critical infrastructure at a global scale, focusing on performance, reliability, and operational excellence.

You will own data plane components end to end, including architecture, testing, safe rollout, observability, and capacity planning. Work with control plane, security, SRE, and operations, while mentoring teammates to raise