Principal Engineer
Verisign · Reston,Virginia,United States
About this role
**About Verisign** Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We’re a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services—delivering unmatched performance in Domain Name System (DNS) services. We’re mission focused and values driven, offering a dynamic, flexible work environment, competitive benefits, and opportunities to grow your career. --- **Principal Engineer — Interconnection & Routing Strategy** The Principal Engineer is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing the organization’s global Internet interconnection strategy. This role oversees settlement-free peering, paid peering, IP transit, Internet Exchange (IX) participation, traffic engineering, routing policy, and strategic relationships with network operators, content providers, cloud providers, carriers, and Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). The ideal candidate brings strong technical networking expertise, business negotiation skills, and industry engagement experience to improve network performance, reduce transit costs, increase resiliency, and support global connectivity objectives. --- **Key Responsibilities** **Interconnection Strategy** - Develop and execute the global peering and interconnection strategy - Identify opportunities to expand peering relationships and optimize transit utilization - Drive network growth through strategic partnerships (ISPs, cloud providers, content networks/CDNs, carriers, hyperscalers) - Evaluate new IX opportunities and regional expansion initiatives - Establish KPIs for traffic offload, cost reduction, latency improvements, and resiliency **Peering Management** - Negotiate and manage settlement-free peering, bilateral peering, multilateral peering, public peering, and private peering - Maintain peering policies and qualification requirements - Manage relationships via PeeringDB, IX communities, and industry forums - Coordinate onboarding and operational support for new peers - Resolve peering disputes, routing issues, and traffic imbalances **Internet Exchange (IX) Operations** - Manage participation across global Internet Exchanges - Evaluate IX performance and ROI - Coordinate provisioning of cross-connects, port upgrades, and new exchange deployments - Develop business cases for new IX expansion - Maintain relationships with IX operators and executive leadership **IP Transit Management** - Manage global transit providers and carrier relationships - Conduct transit capacity planning - Negotiate contracts and pricing - Evaluate transit performance and redundancy requirements - Reduce transit costs through increased peering - Monitor traffic shifts between transit and peering environments **Routing & Traffic Engineering** - Define and maintain routing policies - Optimize traffic flows across peering, transit, IX fabrics, and private interconnections - Manage traffic engineering initiatives using BGP communities, Local Preference, MED, and AS Path Prepending - Analyze traffic patterns and forecast growth - Improve latency, packet loss, and path optimization **Industry Engagement** - Represent the company at NANOG, RIPE, APRICOT, LACNIC, ARIN, APNIC, and the Global Peering Forum - Build executive-level relationships across the internet ecosystem - Participate in policy discussions and industry working groups - Monitor industry trends affecting interconnection and internet governance **Cross-Functional Leadership** - Partner with Network Engineering, Infrastructure Operations,
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