Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at domain-tools

Setup: Remote
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Posted: Jun 9, 2026

Description

DomainTools is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer (Sr. DSE) to join their Real-Time Engineering team. This role involves maintaining, extending, building, and evolving products based on high-volume, real-time telemetry data. The engineer will focus on designing and implementing scalable systems, collaborating with stakeholders, ensuring security, and contributing to product development. They will specifically work on maintaining and scaling the passive DNS database and its storage engine.

Required Skills

Linux
CI/CD systems
cloud deployment
C
Rust
Go

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 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.
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.