Golang Engineer - T1 Proxy

We are looking for a passionate and innovative software engineer to join Traffic Foundation within Walmart's Global Technology Platform group. Traffic Foundation is empowering application teams at Walmart to reach their customers in the fastest, most efficient way possible. We build and design systems handling millions of requests per second; play a critical role in scaling Walmart systems under extremely high-traffic situations; and provide tools to accelerate, secure, and distribute traffic to all the right places.

In this role, you will get to design and build high-performance, next-gen distributed configuration systems at massive scale. Working with teams across E-Commerce, Stores, and everything in between to make Walmart technology the fastest and most resilient in the industry. This critical role will be responsible for leading and participating in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects. Capable of taking complex problem domains, dissecting them until they're well understood and delivering excellently engineered solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop the architecture of the distributed config distribution solution, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team to ensure the solution is developed in accordance with the company's technology standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with other technical leaders to ensure alignment with the company's technology strategy.
• Develop and maintain the distributed config distribution solution using programming languages such as Golang.
• Design a config pipeline that integrates with multiple infrastructure systems, including databases, cache frameworks, Go services, cloud components, proxies, and load balancers.
• Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code that meets the company's coding standards.
• Drives technical vision and influences product roadmap and vision.
• Implement large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects.
• Leads the discovery phase of large projects to develop high-level design.
• Supervise the work of cross-functional groups of engineers, including offshore associates.
• Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues.
• Develops innovation strategies and best practices by leading technical teams, partnering with cross-functional teams, and communicating with executives.

Requirements:

• 13+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Proven expertise in programming languages such as Go, with a strong background in designing and architecting large-scale systems over 10+ years.
• Experience with configuration management systems and distributed systems architecture.
• Managed systems with > 1K servers.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycles, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Experience with cloud (Azure/GCP preferred).
• DevOps experience.
• Clear understanding of TCP/HTTP/gRPC request/response protocols/lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience in dealing with SQL / NoSQL databases as well as distributed cache frameworks.
• Ability to interact effectively with a variety of business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing technical documentation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Skills

Azure, GCP, Go, Golang, distributed systems