Senior DNS Infrastructure Engineer

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

About the role

We 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. In our "move fast" culture, your goal is to build an API-driven, bulletproof DNS architecture where zone provisioning, subdomain delegation, and record updates happen instantly and programmatically via code, removing all human bottlenecks.

Your Responsibilities

• Absolute Ownership of DNS Architecture: Shape, scale, and maintain our global PowerDNS authoritative and recursive infrastructure.

• Massive Scale Engineering: Leverage dnsdist for intelligent load balancing, query filtering, and denial-of-service mitigation to keep our DNS layer highly available under extreme loads.

• Automate Everything: Use SaltStack and Ansible to drive a strict GitOps model for DNS. Every zone, record type, and configuration change must be managed as code.

• Master Subdomain & Multi-Tenancy Routing: Design clean, automated architectures for dynamic subdomain delegation and tenant isolation, ensuring cloud customers can programmatically spin up and tear down records safely.

• Architect Anycast DNS: Partner with our networking team to scale our DNS footprint globally using BGP Anycast, ensuring ultra-low latency and seamless failover across deployment regions.

• Collaborate & Communicate: Act as the organization's resident DNS evangelist. Write crystal-clear internal documentation and runbooks, ensuring our core SRE and platform teams understand how to interface with your DNS pipelines without fear.

Your Key Requirements

• Deep PowerDNS Mastery: Proven experience architecting, tuning, and operating PowerDNS components (Authoritative, Recursor, and dnsdist) at massive scale.

• Expertise in DNS Mechanics: In-depth knowledge of DNS internals (TSIG, DNSSEC automation, EDNS, SOA timers, and query/response optimization).

• Scale & Routing Fundamentals: Solid understanding of how DNS scales using database backends (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and how routing protocols like BGP/Anycast distribute query loads globally.

• Automation-First Mindset: 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure via configuration management (SaltStack or Ansible) and treating infrastructure strictly as code.

• Clear, Collaborative Communicator: The ability to explain complex DNS routing, delegation anomalies, or propagation delays to external teams and leadership with absolute clarity.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience writing custom Lua scripts for advanced traffic management or security filtering inside dnsdist.

• Active contributor to the open-source PowerDNS community or related internet infrastructure working groups (IETF/DNSOP).

• Experience implementing modern privacy/security protocols at scale, such as DNS-over-TLS (DoT) or DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).

Why Verda

• Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).

• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.

• 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

• An opportunity to make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Work mode: Remote (EU)

• Employment type: Full-time, permanent

• Start date: As soon as possible