DNS Engineer III Hybrid - Seattle LA or Denver

Summary / Objective

The DNS Engineer will be instrumental in the ongoing architecture design deployment and implementation of the supporting infrastructure to facilitate DNS applications in a globally distributed environment including traditional as well as cloudbased initiatives. The DNS Engineer may also take an active lead in developing and shaping the future of the Internet by working within the Internet community to define build and implement emerging technologies.

The DNS Engineer will be an integral part of our DNS Infrastructure group. The DNS Infrastructure Group is responsible for running the DNS for over 450 Top Level Domains on the Internet as well as devising and providing support for emerging protocols in our industry.

This role reports to the Sr. Director DNS Infrastructure

What Youll Do

• Implement new hardware and software infrastructure for DNS security publication and resolution
• Design next generation DNS infrastructure including systems networks and cloudbased initiatives
• Retrofit of existing DNS hardware/software
• Troubleshoot and maintain DNS hardware/software
• Evaluate new hardware/software/protocols for production viability
• Work with vendors to integrate and support systems
• Document and train peers and nonpeer groups both within the organization as well as externally for customers government agencies and the Internet community atlarge
• Provide secondlevel support to resolve customer and organization name service issues as submitted within the ticketing system or as escalated by the NOC
• Develop pipelines workflows scripts and applications to automate common or repetitive tasks
• Participate in DNSOperator and NetworkOperator Communities
• Collaborate on protocol specification and review
• Other duties as assigned

Who You Are / What You Bring

• Bachelors degree in computer science engineering or a related field or equivalent experience
• 5 years experience in UNIX systems operations preferably Linux and FreeBSD
• 3 years experience at the corporate level (or within the registry industry) in DNS Administration and Operations using one or more of: BIND NSD knot
• Extensive experience in scripting using UNIXbased tools (shell sed awk perl etc.
• Experience with packet and traffic analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge of DNS protocol and operations
• Knowledge of domain name registration and resolution protocols beneficial
• Participate in oncall rotation
• Ability to work across time zones as part of an international organization
• Ability to travel as needed

Nice to Have

• 1 years DNSSEC operations experience including work with High Security Modules (HSMs)
• Python experience
• Experience in containerization production rollouts and deployment scheduling in a widely distributed environment
  • Cloudbased rollouts are a plus
• Experience in routing protocols including BGP (quagga ExaBGP) multicast and anycast
• 2 years experience working with IPv6
• Cisco CCNA or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of DNSSEC

Location

• This will be a hybrid role if you live within a commutable distance to one of our office locations: Bellevue WA; Denver CO; or El Segundo CA 1 day per week in the office).

Salary Range

The U.S. base salary range for this fulltime position is $122000 $175000 (flexibility based on experience) plus benefits as described below. In addition the successful candidate will be eligible to receive other compensation from time to time in the form of discretionary and/or nondiscretionary bonuses and longterm incentive plan. Actual compensation will be influenced by a candidates qualifications internal employee equity considerations and location. We will not ask for information about a candidates current or past compensation for purposes of developing an offer of employment.

US team members (and their spouses domestic partners and/or dependent children) are covered by generously subsidized medical dental and vision insurance which includes company contributions to a Health Savings Accounts. Team members are also covered by companypaid life and disability insurance and have the option of participating in employeepaid supplemental life accidental death and dismemberment critical illness and accident insurance. In addition team members can enroll in the companys 401(k) plan with up to a 5 match. You receive 15 days of paid vacation yearly increasing to 20 days after one year. Additionally you get 5 days of paid sick leave 13 paid holidays and 20 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents 12 weeks for others. Also theres an opportunity for tuition reimbursement for qualifying expenses.

Note: Benefits programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may vary in certain locations.

A few things to know about us

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Background Check Statement

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Sponsorship Statement

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