Edge Solutions Engineer JobDescription
GRT is carefully searching for new candidates for a high profile, global commerce engagement located in Sunnyvaleand San Bruno, CA. Local residenceis preferred but Pacific Time zone a baseline focus.
We are looking for a solid foundation of technology understanding and work/school experience; we are also equally interested in promising communication skills, and growth potential of any candidate.
As an Engineer on the Edge Solutions team, you’ll help spearhead evangelizing, onboarding and troubleshooting the Edge Foundation products for companies around the globe to help them be successful in delivering performant, robust web applications.
Edge Solutions 5 Primary Pillars
Documentation/Training
Ease of Development/Debugging Tooling
Solutions Architecture
Evangelism
Advanced Configuration Consulting/Management/Debugging
Responsibilities:
Onboarding new customers onto our Edge Proxy/CDN & vendor CDNs
Providing architectural guidance to support large and complex systems integration and solution implementation
Developing & contributing to documentation and guides for Edge Foundation architecture, products and features
Collaborating with other Edge Foundation teams to shape features and products
Collaborating with developers and operations teams from all of Walmart’s markets to implement best practices for performance, security and scaling
Guiding developer and ops teams in writing custom code to satisfy business requirements in the Proxy/CDN
Developing training material and creating User Guides
Training our internal customers on using Edge Foundation products and features
Evangelizing new products and features to existing and potential internal customers
Assisting customers in investigating bugs in their origin configurations
Assisting customers in making changes to Edge Proxy/CDN configurations
Identifying and building tools to help Edge Solutions and our customers reduce the time to resolution for troubleshooting tasks Automating common tasks to reduce Edge Consulting toil
Requirements:
2+ years working with HTTP request/response protocols/lifecycle and related troubleshooting tools and techniques (curl, dig, tcpdump, etc.)
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing technical documentation
Ability to interact effectively with a variety of business and technical stakeholders Ability to translate complex solutions and features into easy to implement actions for customers
Attention to detail
Knowledge of existing proxy and CDN technologies
The drive and passion to learn
A detective-like approach to debugging complex systems prior experience working with external customers a plus