Vultr
Senior Platform Engineer
$125K–$135K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, or systems engineering in a production environment.
About the job
Own and evolve Vultr’s production DNS infrastructure and internal platform services, including DNS API development, automation, and reliability improvements.
What you'll do
- Operate and modernize recursive, reverse, and authoritative DNS infrastructure and PowerDNS integrations; maintain the PHP-based DNS API.
- Diagnose complex DNS and network incidents, and drive automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Collaborate with network and infrastructure teams and improve DNS service observability using the monitoring stack.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with DNS at scale, including recursive and authoritative DNS, DNSSEC, zone management, and troubleshooting.
- Strong Linux systems engineering fundamentals, including networking and production service operations.
- Experience building or maintaining APIs or automation layers, with proficiency in PHP and/or Go or Rust.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
Pay
$125,000 - $135,000 (base salary; ISO currency code not stated)
Tools
Knot Resolver, PowerDNS, PHP, Go, Rust, Grafana, Loki, Mimir
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