Verisign Inc.
Research Engineer
Reston,Virginia,United States · Mid
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About the role
- Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet.
- Seeking enthusiastic candidates for a truly exciting opportunity to strengthen and extend the core security substrate at the heart of the Internet.
- Successful candidates for this position will be in a position to make fundamental and broadly impactful enhancements to the very foundations of Internet security.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders on research and development opportunities based on long-term business strategy and objectives
- Participates in requirements gathering, design, code and test plan reviews
- Develops real world solutions to difficult technology problems through innovative yet programmatic approaches
- Develops compelling and easy to understand use cases as well as software and systems prototypes
- Represents Verisign in related external forums to build our reputation as an industry thought leader
- Represents Verisign in related external forums to build our reputation as an industry thought leader; publicizes research results in appropriate internal and external forums
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field with 5 or more years software development experience, or
- Experience in research engineering, ideally with a mix of professional and academic experience
- Experience with systems development research and/or prototype development
- Experience presenting ideas and prototypes at public forums, such as technical conferences
- Experience with network security, including cryptography, privacy, identification, and authentication
- Experience with open standard Internet protocols and/or services (such as DNS, IP, RDAP, etc.)
- Experience with large scale data analysis and evaluation of network traffic data
- Knowledge of *nix operating systems
Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field with 3+ years software development experience preferred or
- PhD in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field highly preferred
Compensation
- The pay range is $108,900 - 147,300.
- The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience.
Benefits
- Education and experience requirements:
- Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.
Equal opportunity
- Verisign is an equal opportunity employer.
- Our EEO Statement
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