Senior Platform Engineer

🔥 7 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Vultr

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $329M Debt Financing - Vultr on 2025-06

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Hardware

Vultr is a global cloud infrastructure provider offering on-demand virtual machines, bare-metal servers, GPU-accelerated instances, managed databases, object and block storage, Kubernetes, and networking services. The platform emphasizes AI and HPC workloads with a broad selection of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, fast networking, and 32+ data center regions, plus a marketplace of deployable apps and developer-friendly APIs. Vultr targets developers and businesses seeking affordable, scalable, and compliant cloud compute and storage alternatives to hyperscalers.

📋 Description

• Own and operate Vultr's DNS infrastructure at scale, including recursive DNS, reverse DNS, authoritative DNS, and integrations with PowerDNS instances • Maintain and evolve the PHP-based DNS API, including potential modernization in Go or Rust • Diagnose and resolve complex DNS and network incidents as a subject matter expert across the organization • Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code practices across platform services to reduce toil and improve reliability • Collaborate with network and infrastructure teams on BGP route reflectors and broader platform tooling • Improve observability and operational excellence using Grafana, Loki, and Mimir to monitor DNS and platform service health

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or systems engineering in a production environment • Deep hands-on experience with DNS at scale, including recursive and authoritative DNS, DNSSEC, zone management, and troubleshooting complex resolution failures • Strong Linux systems engineering fundamentals, including networking, service management, and operational ownership of production services • Experience building or maintaining APIs or automation layers, with proficiency in PHP and/or Go or Rust • Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar • Must be located in the United States • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans • 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting • Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year • 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan • Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary • 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years • Anniversary Bonus each year • $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year • Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month • Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month • Company paid Wellable subscription