Senior Software Engineer- Network Automation

About the role

Verisign is looking for a software engineer with a passion for networking, automation, Internet Routing Security, and an aptitude for building scalable and distributed systems. Our Network Automation and Visualization team is foundationally driven by knowledge sharing and constructing creative solutions to difficult problems. If working on mission critical Internet Infrastructure with our globally diverse team sounds like a great fit for you.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain tools to better support deployment, testing and operational functions for network infrastructure
• Research and integrate industry best practices in network orchestration initiatives, create operational standards around monitoring and network configuration management
• Actively help identify gaps that are pain points for up/down stream organizations and take a leadership role in executing a solution
• Help improve the Verisign monitoring infrastructure by expanding on current data visualization initiatives and leverage protocols such as NetFlow and Streaming Telemetry
• Help design and implement auto remediation functions to monitor, manage and recover from undesirable network events
• Take a “monitor/measure all the things” approach to help provide more insight into critical infrastructure and applications
• Design and implement 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, building observability tooling for real-time visibility
• Document systems, write runbooks, and participate in routing security incidents

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years' related engineering experience
• Experience working with or creating APIs and understanding of data transport and serialization formats such as REST, JSON, XML, YAML
• Experience with network devices (routers, switches, load balancers) and a good understanding of network routing protocols
• Experience with IRR and RPSL based filtering
• Familiarity with ASPA, RPKI ROV, PKI infrastructure and relevant protocols
• Understanding of infrastructure protocols (BGP, OSPF, VRRP, DHCP, TCP, UDP), IP addressing (IPv6), and application protocols (DNS, SMTP, HTTP, etc.)
• Proficiency in a software development language
• Debug issues within custom code efficiently
• Quickly adapt to and learn new technologies, both development frameworks and technology advancements
• Developing scalable and optimized software systems
• Have a high aptitude and technology-agnostic approach to engineering

Skills

• Solid understanding of the Linux operating systems and Docker containers
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills; exceptional documentation skills, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to internal customers or client audiences, peers, and working closely with leadership
• Experience with automation platforms (Ansible, Salt, etc.)
• Proven contributions to the opensource community. Please provide your github/bitbucket repository of projects
• Experience with time-series database (Influxdb, Open TSDB, Prometheus, etc.)

Benefits

• Work on the high-scale systems that provide key Internet services
• Strong Verisign technical community with constant opportunities to learn via tech talks and other internal events
• Training and education opportunities such as Verisign University and tuition reimbursement for work-related degrees
• Clearly defined corporate mission and values

Pay

The pay range is $135,800 - $183,800. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.

Schedule

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.