Professional Services Engineer

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About Us

NS1’s mission is to unlock the potential of DNS to deliver the tech that powers our customers and the world. 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

We’re looking to expand our growing Professional Services team with a Professional Services Engineer who can guide our customers through the process of implementing and scaling their on-premise deployments of our DNS software. If you have a systems administrator background and enjoy working with customers, particularly in the context of leading on-site trainings and troubleshooting sessions, then this is the role for you!

Responsibilities will include:

  • Deploying self-hosted instances of our network stack across multiple hosts using common Unix tooling, Docker, and Docker Compose
  • Building out an internal wiki / FAQ for debugging and troubleshooting purposes
  • Working directly with customers to troubleshoot and debug their configurations, both on site and remotely
  • Serving as a consultative resource for customers as they integrate NS1’s software with their infrastructure
  • Leveraging insights gathered from working with customers to provide feedback to the product development process
  • Helping to improve the onboarding process to accelerate migrations and enhance the customer experience
  • Partnering with the Product and Engineering teams on improving the product
  • This role requires approximately 25% travel

Your Skills:

  • Excellent Linux/Unix and networking knowledge
  • Moderate programming skills and experience with shell scripting
  • Familiarity and high level of comfort with managing distributed systems
  • Prior exposure to containerized architecture and common virtualization platforms (eg. VMWare, HyperVisor)
  • Experience with Docker and comfort with CLI software
  • Prior experience working with Ansible and other config management tooling
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

Nice to have:

Familiarity with

  • DNS, DHCP or IPAM
  • Layer 4-7 load balancing
  • Tools in the modern DevOps toolkit

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, node
    • 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.


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