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
What's next
We’re building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There’s no artificial deadline, but when we find who we’re looking for, we move.
If this sounds like your next move, apply now.
Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don’t accept applications sent by email nor through agencies.
Expert PowerDNS, DNS architecture, dnsdist, DNS internals, BGP Anycast, database-backed scaling, and SaltStack or Ansible; 5+ years managing infrastructure as code and strong communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
- scaling DNS
- automating infrastructure
- designing routing
Skills & Tools
PowerDNS, dnsdist, SaltStack, Ansible, GitOps, BGP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Lua, DNS-over-TLS (DoT), DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)
Job Details
- Category: Information Technology
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Languages: English
About Verda
A technology company building scalable, renewable-energy-powered cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence. — Industry: Information Technology