Software Engineer - C++

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services. We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet.  We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.

The Team:

Verisign’s Resolution Engineering team is a high performing, Agile team who builds horizontally scalable, high performance, and highly available systems.  As part of the team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing new features for resolution products. You will be writing the software that fundamentally enables the internet to operate  are seeking a motivated Software Engineer to join our team.

The successful candidate will support the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software solutions in a collaborative Agile environment. This role provides an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience with modern software engineering practices, including software integration, vulnerability management, automated testing, and CI/CD pipeline development.

The Person :

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering fundamentals in a variety of languages and tools applied in a system-level engineering environment (C, C++, Rust). You will engage in maintaining the health of development environments including troubleshooting and resolving. You will work in an established, highly-technical Agile development team. You will participate in daily standup meetings, grooming and planning sessions. You will take ownership of features from design to delivery.

Successful engineers will work closely with team members to master our software and make a positive impact on projects as well as team chemistry.

A successful candidate will have:a track record for high quality and impactful delivery demonstrating strong design skills and a passion for code qualitytrue craftsmanship, who enjoys breaking down tough problems, as well as working with a team to deliver valuable solutionspassion for the software development best practices such as automated testing, code reviews, continuous integration, and continuous deliverya curious mindset, be an agent for change, constantly learning and seeking better outcomesskill at interacting and working with people in a proactive manner to mitigate key project technical risks and ensure quality

Required Skills:

Build, Integration and Deployment

Skills:

Experience with or a strong willingness to learn infrastructure automation and platform engineering technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Open Stack Understanding  of CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Groovy, Git Hub)
Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes Awareness of and responsibility for how large-scale distributed systems are deployed and operated

Development and Test

Skills:

Proven foundation in Computer Science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, operating systems, object-oriented design)
Strong systems programming with focus in networking and routing protocols

Experience in behavior-driven testing frameworks such as Python Behave or Cucumber Broad application software development experience with focus in C, C++ or Rust development

Highly proficient in Python or similar scripting language

Role-specific

Skills:

Highly proficient with Linux.

Strong knowledge of the Domain Name System (DNS), networking protocols, and server administration

Strong skills in troubleshooting and diagnosing network issues with tools such as gdb and tcpdump

Provides…