Software engineer - cloud / cdn / javascript

One of our direct client is urgently looking for Software Engineer @Remote - Onshore - CA (Remote - Onshore - CA)

TITLE: Software Engineer - Cloud / CDN / Javascript

LOCATION: Remote - Onshore - CA (Remote - Onshore - CA)

Duration: 6 to 12+ months

Rate: DOE

Walmart Global Tech is looking for Software Engineers to help our holiday traffic throttling project. Walmart sites experience enormous load during November sales events and other special events. Our team is building a distributed queue using edge computing to try to handle this load better. Help us design, build, test, and scale this unique system that will have a huge impact on Walmart's future business. This is a remote role, not in the office. The team you are working with is distributed across the world, but the main working hours are US Pacific time. You will communicate via Slack, email, and Zoom meetings.

Areas of responsibility include:

• Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance 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
• Documents testing and maintenance of application corrections and improvements
• Influence decisions, builds consensus, and resolves conflicts constructively and proactively
• Supports business objectives and ensures the business needs are being met

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems
• 7+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience building and running distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions, or a similar distributed computing platform.
• Experience with CDNs, especially Akamai and Cloudflare.
• 3+ years of experience writing JavaScript, or the ability to quickly learn it.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Golang