We served 20 billion DNS queries in a single day earlier this week. We power the DNS for 15+ million people around the world. We operate 11 datacenters and are adding more. We’ve never had downtime. We’ve been customer-focused since day one. We have a free service and we’ve expanded into two paid offerings, all of which are going great. Oh, and we’re profitable.

And now we are looking for more amazing people to join our team.

Below are our current openings. If you are at the top of your game and have what we’re looking for, we look forward to talking with you.

Available positions

• Operations Engineer
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• Marketing Manager
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• Inside Account Executive
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• Product Manager
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Things are good here at OpenDNS. We have more and more users everyday, we’re handling record numbers of DNS requests, we’re being nominated for cool awards and our service keeps getting better and better.

If you think you have what it takes to move the the world’s largest, fastest-growing DNS service to the next level, we want to hear from you.

Open positions include:

We call this position a WASE (pronounced Waah-See), which stands for Web Applications System Engineer. If you are a solid PHP hacker with little experience working on a global scale you will quickly become an expert of developing web applications that take advantage of all elements of a server and network. We have millions of users, billions of DNS requests and all of our users administer their preferences and settings through our web application that you will extend and maintain.

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This position is for an experienced software developer. This is a broad position, so please click “apply” below for a sampling of tasks this job entails.

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This person is a standout among his/her peers, has the tactical know-how to do his/her job well already and is looking to move into a more strategic marketing role while still executing superbly. We want someone who has a base of significant marketing experience and is ready develop their own marketing programs geared at engaging our audience and converting it into customers.

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If any of these descriptions sound like your areas of expertise, we can’t wait to hear from you.

P.S. If you are a leader in your field but don’t see your ideal position below, you can still apply using a generic OpenDNS application.

We’re looking for a junior programmer to join our global operations team.

The person for this job wants to become a master at system and network operations. You are the kind of programmer who codes to make their life easier. You are the software engineer who longs to leave the monotony of application writing and join the ranks of hackers turned infrastructure architects. You will still code but we’ll teach you the art of systems and network administration.

We will teach you how to manage BGP in multiple sites with finesse. You will learn how to automate routing table analysis to help us make decisions on what datacenters we should expand into so we can better serve our customers. You will help perform security audits at all levels and work on custom tools that measure performance and take actions to improve the quality of service we provide to our customers.

You need to have a desire to run a production network. This job is one where we take calculated steps to ensure we operate the most advanced DNS network in the world.

Read more via my post on Craigslist.

OpenDNS is looking to hire some standout software engineers.

It doesn’t matter if you just graduated with your BS in Computer Science or if you’ve been slinging code in the Valley for the last 20 years. All that matters is that you can solve complex problems and write code that will stand up to your peers. Oh, you have to speak C fluently, even though you might not use it for everything.

Here’s a post we did on Craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/415769743.html

So if you are sitting around with your Master’s in CS where you finished in the top 2% of your class and you are wasting time writing AJAX callbacks so that Bob can add Alice as her buddy on some social networking site, send us an email. The stuff you’ll be doing here will keep you interested and will be used by millions of people. We’ll compensate you well, with full benefits and more often than not, we’ll get a beer with you after work. Sometimes during work.

OpenDNS is looking to add a customer service manager to the team.

We make a point of responding to email and IM, posting here on our blog and in our forums. We respond to customers’ needs in other ways, too. To maintain our high standards, we need some help.

Where better to ask for help in customer service than from your existing customers?

The full-time job is here in San Francisco, California, USA, even though our service (and our blog audience!) is worldwide. So, if you or someone you know wants to help us keep growing, please review the description and apply.

Update: While we encourage people to write code using the PhishTank API, this specific offer is no longer valid.

We’re looking for someone to write some sample (but working) code to help test an anti-phishing database API we’ve developed and are about to release for public use (for free!). We are busy working on a ton of projects right now and rather than divert our attention to writing plugins and extensions for apps we aren’t familiar with we figured we could pay one or two of you to do it for us instead. The code will be licensed under an open-source approved license, probably the Mozilla license, or something even more open. We basically just want our API to have some example implementations when we launch it next week.

Here’s the problem: time is of the essence! We want to have something ready to go public October 2nd, which means we really want to see a test version by Friday, September 29th. This will give us enough time to work out any bugs (in your code or our API) by the morning of Monday, October 2nd. That’s only a week from today (yikes!).

I want to offer some good incentives for you, especially since time is short. Feel free to pick some or all of the following:

• $300 for a Thunderbird extension which scans an email for URLs and checks them against our API and optionally submits suspected URLs from phishing emails into our API.
• $100 for a SpamAssassin plugin which just scans an email for URLs and checks them against our API
• $100 for another equally as cool open source project like Squid Cache, per our approval via email.
• A free lunch w/ our CEO at a good restaurant if you’re willing to come into San Francisco to have it. Our CEO (me) has good taste and gets to decide what a ‘good restaurant’ is, but it’ll be good.
• A blog post saying how much you rock.
• If you really are good, we are hiring and this is a fast-track way to get through the interview process.

Since you will be one of the first to use our API it might require some back and forth with us as we tune our API. It would help if you used Yahoo IM or AIM and spoke English. Other than that, we are pretty flexible about who you are. We posted a listing at RentACoder for a Thunderbird hacker but haven’t had any bites yet which is why we’re posting here. Unless you hear from us directly (John Roberts or myself) that you are hired, we make no guarantees.

You can post general questions here on the blog but specific questions should be sent to us via email (firstname at opendns dot com will get to John or myself).

We want some (seriously elite) PHP / MySQL hackers to join our team in San Francisco.

If you think that making the Internet better and developing real technology (meaning we’re not building AJAX’d out social-networking services over IM) meshes well with you, and you have the PHP / MySQL skills to contribute, then let us know.

Below is a brief rundown of what we’re looking for but you’ll find a more detailed list on our Craigslist posting. Note, the Craigslist posting is for someone more senior but we’re also hiring for a junior PHP / MySQL programming position.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of Computer Science and fundamental algorithms, ability to write well structured and readable code
• Extensive knowledge of PHP, including PHP 5
• Strong knowledge of MySQL with an understanding of the impacts of indexing and schema design along with query analysis and optimization.
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS, ability to develop web pages by writing HTML directly; knowledge of XML extremely helpful.
• Linux knowledge, understanding of how Apache works, and a good familiarity with the shell environment.
• Prior C experience

Bonus Points:

• Serious knowledge of MySQL including but not limited to complex joins, subqueries, stored procedures, etc.
• Experience developing php extensions (PECL modules) in C
• Ability to write and understand JavaScript.
• Previous use of CVS or Subversion for code management and versioning.
• Familiarity with DNS.
• Involvement in any Free or Open Source software projects.

You can send resumes to team (at) opendns _dot_ com.

ps: If you just got out of college with your freshly minted CS degree but don’t have a lot of experience you should still send us an email. You’ll learn more at OpenDNS about software and global deployments than you will ever learn at that boat anchor in Redmond.