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Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the team to design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, and routing configuration. The role involves building reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, and lifecycle management across distributed infrastructure. You will develop production services and libraries primarily in Java, utilizing Python for automation while focusing on API design and correctness. Key technologies include Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate testing and incident investigation. The position requires expertise in Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and high-availability distributed systems. You will solve complex problems regarding DNS infrastructure, ensuring safety through idempotent workflows, canary releases, and feature flags while collaborating with security and SRE teams to deliver secure, end-to-end platform improvements for the cloud environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, and routing configurations.
Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, and lifecycle management across distributed infrastructure.
Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java with supporting automation in Python.
Utilize AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, and incident investigation.
Improve operational resilience through idempotent workflows, optimistic concurrency, auditability, and canary releases.
Manage observability and operational readiness including metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, and capacity planning.
Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring of other engineers.
What we're looking for
Must have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating resilient production services.
Must have 4+ years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, cloud services, or control-plane platforms.
Requires strong proficiency in Java for production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
Must demonstrate ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows while maintaining engineering judgment.
Requires strong API design skills including RESTful services and OpenAPI/Swagger contracts.
Must have experience designing reliable stateful workflows involving asynchronous processing, retries, and idempotency.
Requires solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and highly available distributed systems.
Must have experience with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
DNS
Go
Python
C
Java
Linux
TCP/UDP
Kubernetes
Terraform
Infrastructure-as-Code
Distributed Systems
SRE
Packet Processing
Load Balancing
DDoS Mitigation