Senior DNS Engineer

Digital Ocean
Boston
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 139,200 - 174,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Bias for action","Ownership","Growth mindset","Collaboration","Reliability focus"]

Build and optimize DNS control-plane software for DigitalOcean’s Network Products suite. You’ll implement, test, and scale new services and tools, collaborate with other networking teams to deliver next-generation products, and improve monitoring, performance, and customer experience. The role also involves supporting existing DNS offerings end-to-end, strengthening development and architecture best practices, and operating Linux-based infrastructure while using Go and modern tooling.

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Senior DNS Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and optimize DNS control-plane software for DigitalOcean’s Network Products suite. You’ll implement, test, and scale new services and tools, collaborate with other networking teams to deliver next-generation products, and improve monitoring, performance, and customer experience. The role also involves supporting existing DNS offerings end-to-end, strengthening development and architecture best practices, and operating Linux-based infrastructure while using Go and modern tooling.
Location: Boston
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Implement, test, and optimize new DNS services and tools that run at scale.
  • •Collaborate with other networking teams to build next-generation products and services for developers.
  • •Support existing DNS products and contribute creative solutions to customer and product pain points.
  • •Improve tooling and processes to ship robust, mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
  • •Establish best practices for development and architecture to achieve reliability and performance goals.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 139,200 - 174,000 annually
Perks:Flexible TimeLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •B.S/M.S in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • •Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and APIs.
  • •Experience with Go programming, including unit tests.
  • •Some experience designing and developing high-performance systems.
  • •Domain knowledge of DNS and the networking stack (or strong willingness to learn).
Experience:CloudNetworkingDNS
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Bias for actionOwnershipGrowth mindsetCollaborationReliability focus
Tech Stack:GoConsulKafkaSQLChefGitJiraGRPCPrometheusGrafanaLightstepDockerDNSKubernetesLinuxUbuntuCI/CDAPI

Company Brief

Digital Ocean
Provides cloud infrastructure and developer-focused cloud services including scalable droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage, and networking to simplify deploying and managing applications for developers and small-to-medium businesses.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2011
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