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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 configurations. The role involves building reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, and lifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure. You will develop production services and libraries primarily using Java, with Python used for automation, while focusing on API design and correctness. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Java, concurrent programming, Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. The position also utilizes AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate testing and incident investigation. This role addresses the complex problem of managing high-availability distributed systems and ensuring operational resilience through idempotent workflows, canary releases, and robust observability for mission-critical DNS infrastructure components.
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 using Java and Python with a focus on API design and correctness.
Utilize AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, and incident investigation.
Improve system safety and operational resilience through idempotent workflows, canary releases, and feature flags.
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
6-8+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating resilient production services.
4+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services, or control-plane platforms.
Strong proficiency in Java for production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
Strong API design skills including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger contracts.