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As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join the DNS Data Plane team to design, build, and operate high-performance, reliable DNS services for critical infrastructure. You will develop data plane components across authoritative and recursive request paths, focusing on low-latency and high-throughput processing. Your daily responsibilities include optimizing CPU, memory, and network I/O through event loops and concurrency models while ensuring fault tolerance via replication and circuit breakers. You will build services and libraries using Go, C, Java, or Python, and manage the full lifecycle of components including telemetry, capacity planning, and automated infrastructure. The role requires expertise in Linux systems, networking fundamentals like TCP/UDP, and advanced DNS protocols such as DNSSEC and EDNS(0). You will solve complex problems regarding distributed systems, scalability, and performance-sensitive networking to ensure robust service delivery.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Design and implement high-performance DNS data plane components for authoritative and recursive request paths.
Develop services and libraries using Go, C, Java, or Python based on specific performance requirements.
Optimize system performance by tuning CPU, memory, network I/O, and concurrency models.
Manage the full lifecycle of data plane components including architecture, testing, rollout, and capacity planning.
Build monitoring infrastructure including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and automated alerts.
Implement fault-tolerant designs such as redundancy, replication, circuit breakers, and automatic failover.
Create automation and Infrastructure-as-Code to streamline troubleshooting and maintenance tasks.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of team members.
What we're looking for
At least five years of experience building, managing, or operating large-scale distributed infrastructure in SaaS, cloud, or hybrid-cloud environments.
At least three years of hands-on experience with Linux operating systems.
Proficiency in one or more of Go, C, Java, or Python.
Strong experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems or network services.
Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, TCP/UDP, sockets, concurrency, and performance profiling.
Demonstrated experience designing highly available systems and delivering safe production rollouts using canaries, progressive deployments, and feature flags.
DNS
Go
C
Java
Python
Linux
TCP/UDP
Kubernetes
Terraform
SRE
Distributed Systems
Packet Processing
Load Balancing
Fuzzing
Chaos Testing
Infrastructure-as-Code