Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

DomainTools is looking for a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer (Sr. DSE) to join our Real-Time Engineering team. This role is a key contributor to maintaining, extending, building, and evolving products based on high volume, real-time telemetry data from a worldwide network of data contributors and collectors.  A Sr. DSE is an experienced technologist adept at systems design, prototyping / proof of concept development, and developing and deploying production quality systems and code.

As a Sr. DSE, you will maintain and extend core systems software and assist operations in evolving the infrastructure for delivering high volume realtime telemetry, develop requirements, prototypes, and ultimately production implementations of new products based on the data. You will maintain, extend, and scale our industry-leading passive DNS database and its in-house storage engine. You will work with product management to design new products based on this data, and prototype, develop, and ultimately deploy them. Solving interesting problems and navigating tradeoffs are a core part of this engineering role, in addition to writing and configuring code.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, construct, and maintain real-time telemetry and telemetry processing platforms
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders throughout the company to execute a smooth process from idea to product
• Maintain security, including best practices for secure coding standards, on all development projects and processes 
• Keep current with new technology
• Write complete and effective documentation for your projects
• Ensure that the team only produces the highest quality of code by acting as a peer reviewer and providing in-depth review along with detailed and thoughtful comments
• Support sales and solutions engineering as a subject matter expert on team supported products and systems.

• 5+ years of experience working and developing software for Linux or similar systems.
• 5+ years of experience developing software and/or designing systems in a team environment.
• Working familiarity with modern CI/CD systems and practices and cloud deployment.
• Ability to write and review expert-level systems and application code in C, Rust, or Go.
• Familiarity with multiple systems design approaches (e.g., Cloud-native, monolithic, and microservices) and their respective tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with multiple programming paradigms (e.g., functional, object oriented, concurrent vs. parallel vs. event-driven) and their respective tradeoffs.
• Self-starter with a high level of initiative, commitment and energy.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, ability to prioritize multiple tasks and organize work to meet deadlines.
• Ability to understand the needs of the business and evaluate solutions to recommend to leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working familiarity with Python, and Python integration with C or Rust.
• Experience working remotely with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Familiarity with software packaging and release engineering tools and infrastructure.
• Understanding of core Internet technologies such as TCP/IP, DNS, or BGP.

DomainTools is the global leader for Internet intelligence and the first place security practitioners go when they need to know. The world’s most advanced security teams use our solutions to identify external risks, investigate threats, and proactively protect their organizations in a constantly evolving threat landscape. DomainTools constantly monitors the Internet and brings together the most comprehensive and trusted domain, website and DNS data to provide immediate context and machine-learning driven risk analytics delivered in near real-time. Although we are a remote friendly organization and provide great benefits and outstanding perks.

DomainTools offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees that includes fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums, a 401k retirement plan with company matching, basic life insurance, flexible PTO and additional well-being benefits. 

DomainTools embraces diversity, equity and inclusion to its fullest as an equal opportunity employer. We build our teams so creativity and innovation can flourish. We believe inclusivity and equity fosters innovation and growth; and we harness this mindset to drive a culture that serves our employees and our customers. We encourage people of all backgrounds, ages, perspectives, and skill sets to apply; and do not discriminate based on age, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.