Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

DomainTools•Pittsburgh, PA

14h•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.