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Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.\nJoin Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.\nWhy Verda\nCash and equity compensation along with local benefits.\n\n40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.\n\nA real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.\n\nAbout the role\nWe are looking for a Principal DNS Infrastructure Engineer to completely own our DNS ecosystem. You will inherit a platform built on PowerDNS and take it to the next level of massive scale, resilience, and automation. 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Write crystal-clear internal documentation and runbooks, ensuring our core SRE and platform teams understand how to interface with your DNS pipelines without fear.\n\nYour Key Requirements\nDeep PowerDNS Mastery: Proven experience architecting, tuning, and operating PowerDNS components (Authoritative, Recursor, and dnsdist) at massive scale.\n\nExpertise in DNS Mechanics: In-depth knowledge of DNS internals (TSIG, DNSSEC automation, EDNS, SOA timers, and query/response optimization).\n\nScale & Routing Fundamentals: Solid understanding of how DNS scales using database backends (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and how routing protocols like BGP/Anycast distribute query loads globally.\n\nAutomation-First Mindset: 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure via configuration management (SaltStack or Ansible) and treating infrastructure strictly as code.\n\nClear, Collaborative Communicator: The ability to explain complex DNS routing, delegation anomalies, or propagation delays to external teams and leadership with absolute clarity.\n\nNice-to-Haves\nExperience writing custom Lua scripts for advanced traffic management or security filtering inside dnsdist.\n\nActive contributor to the open-source PowerDNS community or related internet infrastructure working groups (IETF/DNSOP).\n\nExperience implementing modern privacy/security protocols at scale, such as DNS-over-TLS (DoT) or DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).\n\nPracticalities\nWork mode: Remote (EU)\n\nEmployment type: Full-time, permanent\n\nStart date: As soon as possible\n\nWhat's next\nWe're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. 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