Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

• Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, and routing configuration.
• Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, and lifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure.
• Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java, with supporting automation in Python where needed, and a strong focus on API design and correctness.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, incident investigation, and operational automation, with appropriate human review, security, and quality controls.
• Improve safety and operational resilience through idempotent workflows, optimistic concurrency, audit-ability, rollback paths, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Own observability and operational readiness: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, run-books, capacity planning, and thoughtful on-call participation.
• Partner with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams to deliver secure, end-to-end platform improvements.
• Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring of other engineers., * You deliver control-plane capabilities that make DNS changes safer, faster, and easier for customers and internal operators.
• You improve the reliability, auditability, and operability of DNS configuration workflows at scale.
• You raise engineering standards through pragmatic design, rigorous testing, and collaborative technical leadership.

• 6-8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating resilient production services.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services, and/or control-plane platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java, including production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to improve design, code generation, testing, troubleshooting, and process automation while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
• Strong API design skills, including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger or comparable API contracts.
• Experience designing reliable stateful workflows, including asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, concurrency control, and failure recovery.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes., * DNS expertise, including authoritative DNS, zone and record management, DNS delegation, TTLs, DNSSEC, and DNS change propagation.
• Experience with cloud control planes, resource lifecycle management, or multi-tenant platform APIs.
• Knowledge of internet protocols and security standards, including DNS, TLS, HTTP, and REST.
• Experience with relational or distributed data stores and schema evolution for highly available services.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD platforms such as OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD, and engineering productivity tools including Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.
• Experience operating mission-critical services in a 24/7 environment., 8 years of experience in software development, Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

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Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development

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Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development

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Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.

Job Skills:

Same skills as prior level plus;

Distributed Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.

Prototyping: Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.

Computer Science Programming: Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.

Software Engineering: Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.

Web Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.

Innovation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.

Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.

Information Vulnerabilities: Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.

Operating Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various operating environments.

API Development: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, and maintain secure APIs for application integration.

API Integration: Demonstrated ability to build and manage robust API integrations for seamless interoperability between systems.

Applied Algorithm Engineering: Demonstrated skill in designing, analyzing, and optimizing algorithms for efficiency and scalability.

Source Control: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of source control, including managing and documenting code versions and release branches.

Cloud - Cloud Platforms Experience:

2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

Testing and Automation Experience:

3 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.

Distributed Systems Experience:

2 year of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems., Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development, Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development, Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics.

People Leadership / Management Experience:

2 year of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

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