Golang Engineer - EGDE CDN

The core focus of the Traffic Platform is to develop and implement new innovative software solutions, which scale significantly with business demand and enhance Walmarts cloud platforms. We take pride in developing, maintaining, and enhancing multiple massive clusters of front-end-optimizing (FEO) reverse proxies with on-the-fly content rewriting, image resizing, caching, request-response life cycle, and Lua event handler execution (all multi-domain/tenant). We also own the responsibilities of development, deployment, and operation of a Walmart CDN ecosystem involving BGP/anycast, DNS servers, and peer-to-peer health monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Develop custom experiences such as Queuing and redirect engines.
• Leveraging Edge Compute to enhance the web experience for Walmart customers globally.
• Automate CDN workflows and use your expertise in GoLang, JavaScript, and Terraform to implement solutions.
• Make the web faster for our customers and associates worldwide by applying your knowledge of web standards and protocols.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or Mathematics or 10-15 years of applicable industry experience.
• Experience with distributed systems and one or more commercially available content delivery network platforms.
• Experience working with HTTP request/response protocols/lifecycle and related troubleshooting tools and techniques.
• 5+ years of server-side experience in Go and JS.
• Experience in using Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure as code.
• Strong background in process design for reliable systems; strong big-picture awareness of systems.
• Ability to interact effectively with a variety of business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing technical documentation.
• Good generalist experience, with ability and willingness to read and write into all layers of a software stack.
• A knowledge of web performance (DOM, HAR files, waterfall diagrams).
• Previous experience with configuration management frameworks such as SaltStack.

Skills

Go, Golang, JS, JavaScript, Terraform