Company brief · updated 2026-10-18
verisign.com · Internet · Verisign, a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, enables internet navigation for many of the world’s most recognized domain names.
Today: Verisign powers the domain names that define the internet (.com, .net registry).
Roles: Product Management Director · Product Management Director - Top-Level Domains
Requirements mention: Launching TLDs · generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) · Domain Name System (DNS) · Product strategy · Roadmaps
Inference: two director-level product roles (opened 2026-07-27 and 2026-08-12) suggest Verisign is adding product leadership for new TLD products and emerging DNS services, from concept through launch and commercialization.
Today: Proprietary DNS registration and resolution infrastructure built for dependability in a cyberthreat environment.
Roles: Product Management Director · Senior Information Security Architect
Requirements mention: AI platforms · Agentic AI · developer tooling · AI agents · prompt injection · OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications · NIST AI RMF
Inference: the emerging-DNS-services product role asks for AI platform and agentic AI experience, and the security architect role asks for LLM and AI-agent security skills. This suggests Verisign is exploring DNS services connected to AI and developer ecosystems. The postings do not say what those services are.
Today: Proprietary DNS registration and resolution infrastructure.
Roles: Software Engineer - Rust · Software Engineer - RUST · Software Engineer - C++
Requirements mention: C, C++, Rust · DNS at the protocol level · system-level programming language · Docker and Kubernetes · Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and OpenStack
Inference: three Product Engineering roles are hiring for the resolution platform, in Reston and Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland. The Reston Rust role has been open since May 2026. The C++ posting describes 'resolution products' and does not name ATLAS. It is not clear whether these roles are growth or backfill.
Today: Infrastructure purpose-built for dependability in an ever-increasing cyberthreat environment.
Roles: Software Engineer - Network and Automation · Principal Engineer
Requirements mention: RPKI ROV · ASPA · IRR and RPSL based filtering · BGP-4 · Flowspec · BGP Communities
Inference: a principal-level owner for global interconnection strategy, plus an engineer building RPKI validation, ROA management and BGP origin validation tooling, suggests continued investment in routing security for Verisign's own network. Both roles are in Reston.
Today: Mission-critical services; the posting describes an internal DDI initiative.
Roles: Senior DDI Engineer
Requirements mention: IPAM (IPv4 and IPv6) hierarchy · DHCP lease management · anycast · ServiceNow integration
No next step inferred; one posting.
| Department | Open |
|---|---|
| Architecture & Infrastructure | 3 |
| Product Engineering | 3 |
| Other | 2 |
| Chief Security Office (CSO) | 1 |
| Customer Operations | 1 |
| CIS Operations | 1 |
| Production Operations | 1 |
| Product Management | 1 |
18 listings: 16 specific postings plus 2 standing general applications. 14 of the postings are in Reston, Virginia. Architecture & Infrastructure (3, all Reston) and Product Engineering (3, two in Reston, one in Switzerland) are the largest departments, followed by Product Management (2). Each other department has one opening.
Seniority: 13 of 18 are senior or above: 8 senior, 1 principal, 2 director, 2 manager. The rest are 2 mid, 1 junior and 2 unknown (the general applications).
Skills named most: Linux, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, DNS, C++, Rust, CI/CD, automated testing, BGP
Locations: 14 postings in Reston, Virginia; 1 in Villars-sur-Glâne, Fribourg, Switzerland; 1 in the Netherlands; plus 2 general applications (United States, International). No remote roles listed.
If you're applying: Plan on Reston, Virginia: 14 of 16 specific postings are there and none are remote. The exceptions are a Rust engineer in Switzerland and a policy manager in the Netherlands. Engineering openings center on DNS resolution software, routing security and network infrastructure. Five roles opened in the last 30 days and three closed, a steady pace.
If you're selling or recruiting: Recruiters: the hard-to-fill profiles are Rust/C++ engineers who know DNS at the protocol level, BGP/RPKI routing specialists, and product directors with TLD launch or AI-platform experience. Most must be in Reston. Sales: active teams include routing security (RPKI, ASPA), identity security (BeyondTrust PAM, Microsoft Entra ID), an Infoblox-based DDI platform with ServiceNow integration, and security architecture work on AI risk.
| Title | Department | Location | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Information Security Architect | Chief Security Office (CSO) | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-10-05 |
| Principal Engineer | Architecture & Infrastructure | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-09-23 |
| Sr Software Engineer - Big Data | Architecture & Infrastructure | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-09-22 |
| Software Engineer - C++ | Product Engineering | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-09-11 |
| Compliance Specialist II or III | Customer Operations | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-09-10 |
| PAM Engineer - BeyondTrust | CIS Operations | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-09-08 |
| Software Engineer - RUST | Product Engineering | Villars-sur-Glâne,Fribourg,Switzerland | 2026-08-24 |
| Senior DDI Engineer | Production Operations | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-07-30 |
| Product Management Director - Top-Level Domains | Product Management | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-07-27 |
| Software Engineer - Rust | Product Engineering | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-05-21 |
| Software Engineer - Network and Automation | Architecture & Infrastructure | Reston,Virginia,United States | 2026-03-24 |
| General Application - U.S. positions | United States | 2021-03-11 | |
| General Application - International positions | International | 2021-03-11 |