About Us

NS1’s mission is to manage the world’s application traffic. We are the market leader in DNS and traffic management software and services, and our customers include the biggest properties and largest enterprises on the internet, such as Salesforce, LinkedIn, Squarespace, Pandora, Imgur, Yelp, Dropbox, and many more. Our modern DNS technologies enable optimized application delivery, couple via our APIs into the tooling and processes of today’s DevOps organizations, and deliver reliability and performance at global scale. We operate a worldwide, highly tuned Managed DNS network, and also deliver our technologies to customers as single-tenant software deployments. We solve incredibly challenging problems on behalf of our customers, in the most mission critical parts of their stack.

The Role

NS1 is looking to hire an experienced data engineer (or backend developer interested in specializing in data) to join our growing data science team. As an engineer embedded within the data team, you will be responsible for architecting and deploying our big data analytics infrastructure, creating ETL pipelines and helping the team test and deploy machine learning models. We are seeking someone who can leverage existing technical strengths in distributed systems, immerse themselves in our platform quickly, and teach themselves any systems that are new to them.

Your Skills

Data engineers come from all backgrounds. Even if you do not meet all the requirements, send us a note telling us why you are interested. In general, you would be a strong candidate if you are familiar with more than a few of the following:

• Python, Go, Scala, C++, Node.js
• Extensive experience of databases and data modeling
• Data pipelining, ETL, statistics
• AWS: Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS
• Spark, Hadoop, MapReduce
• Experience with docker
• Excellent UNIX and networking knowledge
• Strong Linux systems programming skills
• Knowledge of distributed systems
• Ability to design with modern internet infrastructure operation in mind, including metrics, logging, automation, etc

Our technology stack at NS1, and the many systems you’ll have an opportunity to work with here:

• Our globally distributed platform is comprised of many subsystems including:
• Custom built DNS software that’s deployed on physical hardware and an anycasted network that spans nearly 30 facilities globally
• REST API, and Portal
• Deployment automation, CI/CD, unit/integration testing
• Monitoring, metrics collection and alerting
• Traffic load balancing, filtering, and DDoS mitigation tools
• Messaging, persistent DB and caching systems
• Other technologies and integrations include:
• Linux, Ansible, Docker & other container platforms
• BGP, BPF/IPTables, SDN, packet analysis
• MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, SQL
• Python (Twisted), Bash, C, C++14, React, Redux, D3
• Hadoop/HDFS/OpenTSDB, Grafana, Bosun
• Integrations with third party SaaS, APIs, and libraries, various Open Source projects including REST API clients and integrations

Working @ NS1

We’re a fast-growing, well-funded startup based in the heart of New York City’s Financial District with offices and team members around the world. Working at NS1, you’ll come to understand our team is unique, both in and out of the workplace. We have PhDs, musicians, artists, and athletes working side by side, dedicated to delivering first class products. We’re hardworking, but we're also a compassionate group. We understand that outside of NS1 is a world that places demands on our time. Our leadership team is dedicated to open and honest communication and we continuously strive to foster a culture of transparency, flexibility, and creativity.

We offer:

• competitive compensation (salary and stock options)
• medical, dental, and vision
• commuter benefits
• 401k
• flexible hours and time off
• choice of workstation

NS1 is an equal opportunity employer.