BIND 9 Software Engineer (Fully Remote) Full-time

Job description

We are looking for a software engineer to work on BIND 9. This engineer will be a core part of the development team, assisting in developing new features and maintaining the program.

BIND 9 is the most widely-used Domain Name server on the Internet, operators of the DNS root system, by Internet Service providers and enterprises. The BIND 9 development team contributes to developing the Internet standards for DNS, and BIND 9 is a reference implementation of the standard.

Responsibilities

• Working with the team to design and develop new features
• Reviewing code changes
• Responding to bug reports from a variety of sources and fixing bugs
• Assisting in release engineering
• Assisting in project planning
• Acting as on-call escalation engineer (eventually)
• Participating in organizations such as the IETF to develop Internet protocols

Job requirements

Required Skills

• Spoken and written English at the conversational level
• Programming skills in a procedural or object-oriented programming language (C, C++, Rust, …)
• Understanding that BIND 9 is written in C11/C17 and you will be required to program in C
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies (see below for a more comprehensive list)
• Familiarity with Unix/BSD/Linux operating systems
• Self-motivation and self-control when working from home
• Be a nice person and a decent human being

Valuable Skills

• Experience with the C development, preferably at the C11/C17 level
• Specific experience working with BIND 9
• Practical experience with Git
• Knowledge about the DNS protocol
• Knowledge about multiprocessor programming
• Knowledge about networking, both from a theoretical as well as a practical standpoint
• Experience in network programming with libuv
• Experience with practical cryptography and programming with OpenSSL
• Experience with Python
• Familiarity with open source tools and working environments

What We Use (In Alphabetical Order)
Address Sanitizer, Autotools, Clang Static Analyzer, cmocka, Coverity, Docker, Flamethrower, GDB, Git, GitLab, GnuPG, libvirt, mock, Packer, QEMU, respdiff, RPM, rr, ShellCheck, Sphinx-doc, Thread Sanitizer, Userspace-RCU, Wireshark

Educational Requirements
Adequate experience in a scientific or technical subject, this can include relevant coursework.

Location/Hours of Working
Anywhere. This position is suitable for home working and for a person with children.

Although ISC is located in the United States, most ISC’s staff work from their homes throughout the world.

With staff working from many time zones, there are no set hours of work. We expect that staff work forty hours a week, but within parameters set by their manager (e.g., available for meetings, having some overlap with other team members), staff can choose their own working hours. Many of the ISC staff have small children at home, so we understand there might be some volatility in working hours.

Note that occasional international travel will be required to attend company and team meetings and/or conferences. In the past, these have been held in the USA and Europe.

To learn more about ISC and its critical role in the Internet community, visit https://www.isc.org.