Golang Job: Software Engineer

Are you a Go (Golang to Google) developer? Do you have experience building backend, network related Golang applications? We've got a great position for you here at @WalmartLabs on our Torbit (CDN, Load balancing, and performance) Team. This position will help us create the backbone of the Torbit services, primarily focused on traffic routing, caching, and automated frontend optimization.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting the operation of our Torbit optimization proxies and other services for monitoring and improving frontend performance. You will work with other Go developers and performance engineers to solve frontend performance bottlenecks and related issues.

We have a strong commitment to moving fast and solving real problems. We are providing critical infrastructure and need to be a part of the business that "just works". It will be your responsibility to meet this commitment, both individually and as a member of the team.

If you've dealt with large, scalable systems in the past, that would be great. A passion for performance and basic Bash and operations skills are also a plus, but not required. Come help us make Walmart. com faster!

You will be responsible to do the following:

• Design, prototype, and develop high-performance software for our http proxy rewriting system
• Discover and implement new performance optimizations for the site and traffic routing
• Build internal tools to monitor, manage, and automate existing systems

Minimum Qualifications:

Lead the discovery phase of large projects to develop high level design

Develop and leverage internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the

achievement of business goals

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience in

building scalable backend systems and/or performance related experience

Good Programming experience in Go/C/C++/Java/Perl/Python

Strong background in process design for reliable systems; strong "big picture" awareness of

systems

Good generalist experience, with ability and willingness to read and write into all layers of a

software stack

Experience working with operations or with deployment, monitoring, and other sustainable

operations of software a plus