Senior Platform Engineer
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VultrCloud Infrastructure
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary125,000 - 135,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- PHPGoGrafanaRustLinuxTerraformAnsible
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or systems engineering in a production environment.
- Deep hands-on experience with DNS at scale — including recursive and authoritative DNS, DNSSEC, zone management, and troubleshooting complex resolution failures.
- Strong Linux systems engineering fundamentals including networking, service management, and operational ownership of production services.
- Experience building or maintaining APIs or automation layers.
- Proficiency in PHP and/or Go or Rust.
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tooling (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
Responsibilities
- Own and operate Vultr's DNS infrastructure at scale, including recursive DNS (Knot Resolver), reverse DNS, authoritative DNS, and integrations with PowerDNS instances.
- Maintain and evolve the PHP-based DNS API, contributing to its long-term direction including potential modernization in Go or Rust.
- Diagnose and resolve complex DNS and network incidents, serving as a subject matter expert across the organization.
- Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code practices across platform services, reducing toil and improving reliability.
- Collaborate with network and infrastructure teams on adjacent systems including BGP route reflectors and broader platform tooling.
- Contribute to observability and operational excellence by leveraging the team's monitoring stack (Grafana, Loki, Mimir) to improve visibility into DNS and platform service health.
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