Senior Platform Engineer — DNS & Infra Architect

Vultr; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Professional development reimbursement

Sabbatical program

Remote office stipend

Internet reimbursement

Gym reimbursement

Wellable subscription

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our critical DNS infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a seasoned infrastructure engineer with deep DNS expertise, strong Linux and networking fundamentals, and the ability to own and modernize complex internal services end-to-end.

This is a highly visible role in a high-growth technology company, which will require hands-on technical ownership of production DNS systems, collaboration across engineering teams, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Deep DNS expertise including DNSSEC, zone management, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux systems engineering basics with networking and service management.
• Experience building or maintaining APIs or automation layers, with PHP and/or Go or Rust.
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling experience like Terraform or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate Vultr's DNS infrastructure at scale, including recursive and authoritative DNS and integrations with PowerDNS instances.
• Diagnose and resolve DNS and network incidents, acting as a subject matter expert across the organization.
• Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with network and infrastructure teams on adjacent systems and platform tooling.
• Contribute to observability and monitoring (Grafana, Loki, Mimir) for DNS and platform service health.

Skills

DNS at scale

Linux systems

Networking

API development

PHP/Go/Rust

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Vultr is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our critical DNS infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a seasoned infrastructure engineer with deep DNS expertise, strong Linux and networking fundamentals, and the ability to own and modernize complex internal services end-to-end.

This is a highly visible role in a high-growth technology company, which will require hands-on technical ownership of production DNS systems, collaboration across engineering teams, and the ability to