Senior Software Engineer (GoLang)
San Diego, CA

Job Description

Job Description

Day to Day:

Do you like Golang, distributed teams, distributed systems, web performance, and smart, kind, empathic teammates? We are looking for a backend developer to help build tools that speed up all of Walmart e-commerce. You'll be building mostly HTTP APIs, mostly in Go. These APIs control our CDNs, load balancing, and web optimization systems used across virtually all Walmart e-commerce properties.

A typical day might involve any of the following:

* Create an API endpoint to control our performance tooling.
* Add metrics and monitoring to increase the observability of our applications.
* Work with our configuration management systems to smooth out our deploy process.
* Give design feedback and review teammates' code.
* Our stack uses Go and MySQL.
* Develops Innovation strategies, processes, and best practices
* Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects
* Ensures business needs are being met
* Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects
* Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design
* Leads the work of other small groups of six to ten engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects
* Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
* Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates
* Supports business objectives
* Troubleshoots business and production issues
* Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment

Must Have:

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 6 years' experience building scalable ecommerce applications or mobile software
* You have at least two years of professional experience building RESTful APIs.
* You have at least three years of professional experience with Go, Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or another server-side programming language.
* Experience with Salt, Chef, Puppet or other configuration management tools
* You're comfortable with writing and maintaining performant SQL queries.
* You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
* You're willing to dive in to unfamiliar layers of the stack.
* You have experience with Linux systems.

Plus:

* Experience with CDNs
* Experience in networking
* Experience with front-end development

Do you like Golang, distributed teams, distributed systems, web performance, and smart, kind, empathic teammates? We are looking for a backend developer to help build tools that speed up all of Walmart e-commerce. You'll be building mostly HTTP APIs, mostly in Go. These APIs control our CDNs, load balancing, and web optimization systems used across virtually all Walmart e-commerce properties. A typical day might involve any of the following: * Create an API endpoint to control our performance tooling. * Add metrics and monitoring to increase the observability of our applications. * Work with our configuration management systems to smooth out our deploy process. * Give design feedback and review teammates' code. * Our stack uses Go and MySQL. * Develops Innovation strategies, processes, and best practices * Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects * Ensures business needs are being met * Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects * Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design * Leads the work of other small groups of six to ten engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects * Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity * Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates * Supports business objectives * Troubleshoots business and production issues * Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment