Senior Infrastructure Engineer - DNS

Rumble; Washington, Sarasota, Miami, New York (District of Columbia, FL, FL, NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Rumble is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DNS) to build and operate authoritative DNS infrastructure at scale. You will own zone management, anycast routing, DNSSEC, health checks, and failover, collaborating with CDN, network, and security teams.

The role demands deep DNS and Linux expertise, strong routing knowledge, and proven incident response. You’ll improve observability, automation, and reliability of globally distributed services critical to user reach.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant network, DNS, systems, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of DNS architecture, including delegation, zones, authoritative and recursive DNS, record types, TTLs, negative caching, and name-resolution processes.
• Demonstrated experience operating a robust, production-grade authoritative DNS deployment.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, and internet-facing production services.
• Experience designing or operating high-availability, geographically distributed, and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Knowledge of DNS security concepts, including DNSSEC, zone signing, key rotation, spoofing, cache poisoning, and amplification risks.
• Strong Linux systems experience and proficiency with Python, Bash, Perl, or similar languages for automation, deployment, validation, and maintenance.
• Expert troubleshooting skills, including the ability to analyze resolution, delegation, routing, and availability failures under pressure.
• Excellent technical documentation and verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve Rumble’s authoritative DNS and global traffic-steering infrastructure.
• Build fault-tolerant, secure, and highly available DNS services capable of handling large-scale query volume.
• Develop and maintain DNS architecture, including zones, delegation, records, name-server infrastructure, recursive-resolution dependencies, and failover mechanisms.
• Improve performance, resiliency, and reliability through anycast routing, load balancing, capacity planning, query analysis, and infrastructure automation.
• Implement and maintain DNS security controls, including DNSSEC and protections against spoofing, cache poisoning, amplification, and other DNS-focused attacks.
• Partner with CDN, network, systems, and security teams on service discovery, traffic routing, DDoS resilience, and incident response.
• Build automation for zone management, configuration deployment, validation, change control, and operational maintenance.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, incident postmortems, and operational procedures.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and clearly communicate service status and remediation progress.

Skills

DNS architecture

Linux systems

Python

Bash/Shell scripting

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication skills

Networking fundamentals

Tools

BIND

Knot DNS

NSD

PowerDNS

Unbound

Job description

Washington D.C, Sarasota, Miami, New York City, Toronto, ON

About RUM Group Inc.

RUM Group Inc. is an AI infrastructure and video company. Its Quake AI business delivers AI compute as a service, operating AI data centers including GPU and CPU compute, storage, and networking at scale. Rumble, RUM Group's video business and the original tenant of Quake AI, provides creators and enterprises a full suite of video technologies, unlocking reach, scale, and monetization. RUM Group is building the rails of the agentic-first enterprise: the AI compute, cloud infrastructure, and trust layer for the agentic AI future, advancing RUM Group's mission to maximize the power of human imagination. For more information visit www.rum.group.

Rumble is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DNS) to build, operate, and advance the authoritative DNS infrastructure that supports Rumble’s platform and related services. This is a high-impact role focused on maintaining reliable global reachability, service discovery, traffic steering, and resilience for mission-critical internet-facing systems.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DNS), you will work across network infrastructure, CDN, systems, and security teams to operate highly available DNS services at scale. You’ll help design and automate zone management, authoritative name-server infrastructure, anycast routing, DNSSEC, health checks, and failover mechanisms while improving observability and operational response.

This role requires deep DNS and Linux expertise, strong internet-routing fundamentals, and sound judgment during production incidents. If you enjoy solving complex name-resolution and routing problems, improving the security and reliability of globally distributed services, and building infrastructure that is foundational to how users reach Rumble, you’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact here.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve Rumble’s authoritative DNS and global traffic-steering infrastructure.
• Build fault-tolerant, secure, and highly available DNS services capable of handling large-scale query volume.
• Develop and maintain DNS architecture, including zones, delegation, records, name-server infrastructure, recursive-resolution dependencies, and failover mechanisms.
• Improve performance, resiliency, and reliability through anycast routing, load balancing, capacity planning, query analysis, and infrastructure automation.
• Implement and maintain DNS security controls, including DNSSEC and protections against spoofing, cache poisoning, amplification, and other DNS-focused attacks.
• Partner with CDN, network, systems, and security teams on service discovery, traffic routing, DDoS resilience, and incident response.
• Build automation for zone management, configuration deployment, validation, change control, and operational maintenance.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, incident postmortems, and operational procedures.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and clearly communicate service status and remediation progress.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant network, DNS, systems, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of DNS architecture, including delegation, zones, authoritative and recursive DNS, record types, TTLs, negative caching, and name-resolution processes.
• Demonstrated experience operating a robust, production-grade authoritative DNS deployment.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, and internet-facing production services.
• Experience designing or operating high-availability, geographically distributed, and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Knowledge of DNS security concepts, including DNSSEC, zone signing, key rotation, spoofing, cache poisoning, and amplification risks.
• Strong Linux systems experience and proficiency with Python, Bash, Perl, or similar languages for automation, deployment, validation, and maintenance.
• Expert troubleshooting skills, including the ability to analyze resolution, delegation, routing, and availability failures under pressure.
• Excellent technical documentation and verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with anycast DNS deployments and BGP-based traffic engineering.
• Experience with DNS server software and tooling, such as BIND, Knot DNS, NSD, PowerDNS, Unbound, or comparable platforms.
• Experience managing DNSSEC at scale, including automated signing, key management, rollover processes, and validation troubleshooting.
• Experience with DNS-based global server load balancing, geo-routing, health checks, and traffic failover.
• Experience with open-source routing daemons on Linux, such as BIRD or FRR.
• Experience with DNS monitoring, query analytics, packet capture, and network-observability tools.

Annual Compensation Range:

$132,000 - $158,000 CAD base + benefits + equity (If based in Canada)

$150,000 - $195,000 USD base + benefits + equity (If based in the United States)

Note: The salary range listed for this position is a good faith estimate based on experience, qualifications, and internal compensation structure. The actual salary offered varies depending on the candidate's skill level and experience. This posting refers to an active vacancy within the organization.

Why Our Team Loves Working Here:

• We are making a significant financial impact for our video creator community; we’re proud of their success stories
• We enjoy challenging the status quo and going head-to-head against Big Tech
• We aren’t afraid to try new things; we act fast and want to win
• We pay competitive salaries and provide great benefits

EEO Statement:
Rumble is an equal opportunity employer. We promote an equal playing field where everyone has the same opportunitiesregardless ofrace, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Rumble is an active participant in the e-verify program.

Physical demands of the position:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for prolonged periods of time while using a computer and/or keyboard. The employee is required to communicate verbally and hear. The employee may be required to walk, reach with hands and arms, balance, and stoop or kneel. The employee may occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include clarity of vision at approximately 20 inches or less (i.e., working with small objects or reading small print), including the use of computers.