Software Engineer - C++

About the role

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 at scale. We 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 quality

- true craftsmanship, who enjoys breaking down tough problems, as well as working with a team to deliver valuable solutions

- passion for the software development best practices such as automated testing, code reviews, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

- a curious mindset, be an agent for change, constantly learning and seeking better outcomes

- skill 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 OpenStack

- Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Groovy, GitHub)