Verisign

Software Engineer - Network and Automation

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3 hours ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$136k - $184k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain software tools supporting deployment, testing, and operational functions for network infrastructure.
  • Research and apply industry best practices in network orchestration, monitoring, and network configuration management.
  • Identify organizational pain points and lead execution of appropriate technical solutions.
  • Expand monitoring and data visualization infrastructure using NetFlow and Streaming Telemetry.
  • Design and implement automated remediation for undesirable network events.
  • Build systems for RPKI validation, ROA management, and BGP origin validation at scale.
  • Develop and maintain route policy systems and provisioning pipelines across a diverse, multi-vendor network.
  • Instrument and monitor routing infrastructure and build real-time observability tooling.
  • Document systems, write runbooks, and participate in routing security incidents.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • At least 8 years of related engineering experience.
  • Experience creating or working with APIs and data transport and serialization formats including JSON, XML, and YAML.
  • Experience with routers, switches, load balancers, and network routing protocols.
  • Experience with IRR and RPSL-based filtering.
  • Familiarity with ASPA, RPKI ROV, PKI infrastructure, and related protocols.
  • Understanding of BGP, OSPF, VRRP, DHCP, TCP, UDP, IPv6, DNS, SMTP, and HTTP.
  • Proficiency in a software development language and ability to debug custom code efficiently.
  • Experience developing scalable and optimized software systems.
  • Preferred experience with Linux operating systems, Docker containers, automation platforms such as Ansible and Salt, and time-series databases such as InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, and Prometheus.
  • Preferred open-source contributions and strong documentation, communication, presentation, vendor liaison, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule based in the Reston, Virginia office.
  • Competitive benefits and opportunities for career growth.
  • Technical learning through Verisign University, tech talks, and internal events.
  • Tuition reimbursement for work-related degrees.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and stock awards.

Tech Stack

AnsibleDockerInfluxDBLinuxPrometheus

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About Verisign

501-1,000 employees

A global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services.

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