About Us

NS1 optimizes delivery of the world’s most critical internet and enterprise applications. Only NS1’s platform is built on a modern API-first architecture that acts on real-time data and grows more powerful in complex environments, transforming DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (IPAM) into an intelligent, efficient, and automated system. NS1’s technology drives dramatic gains in IT efficiency and application performance, reliability, and security for the largest global enterprises, including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Nielsen, Pitney Bowes, Squarespace, Pandora and The Guardian. We solve incredibly challenging problems on behalf of our customers, in the most mission critical parts of their stack.

The Role

We’re looking to add a new member to our small but fast growing engineering team: an experienced Backend Software Engineer with expertise in Active Directory and Windows-based distributed systems. The successful candidate would be expected to dive in and drive the integration of our enterprise DDI product with Active Directory services to continue to expand support for our enterprise customers in Windows environments.

We’re looking for an autodidact who can immerse themselves in our platform immediately, leveraging existing technical strengths and teaching themselves the systems that are new to them. You should have broad knowledge of the technologies in modern infrastructure operations and automation and be able to offer constructive advice for improvements while using and scaling the systems in our existing platform. You’ll take responsibility for the quality of your code, and your daily work will have an immediate company-wide impact.

Your Skills:

• Strong Python programming language expertise
• Expert in Active Directory and managing AD based networks and systems
• Strong knowledge of directory service technologies such as DNS, DHCP and GPO
• Knowledge of Windows authentication services like LDAP and Kerberos
• Excellent computer networking knowledge
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems
• Linux systems programming skills is a plus
• Experience in Docker
• Experience working with both relational and database-oriented databases
• Ability to design with modern internet infrastructure operation in mind, including metrics, logging, automation, etc
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts in a simple language

Nice to have:

Familiarity with

• Knowledge of Go, C++ or JavaScript/NodeJS
• DNS protocol
• Containers, SDN and other tools in the modern DevOps toolkit
• Linux kernel tuning, user-space networking

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 platform that’s deployed on physical hardware
• Anycasted edge network that spans nearly 30 facilities globally
• REST API and Client Portal
• Deployment automation, CI/CD, unit/integration testing
• Monitoring, metrics collection and alerting
• Traffic load balancing, filtering, and DDoS mitigation tools
• Distributed messaging, persistent DB and caching systems
• Other technologies and integrations include:
• Linux, Ansible, Docker & other container platforms
• BGP, BPF, SDN, packet analysis
• MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL
• Go, Python, Bash, C, C++14, React, Redux, D3
• OpenTSDB, ELK, Grafana
• 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.