About Us

Walmart is large organization with over 2.3 million employees and hundreds of millions of customers. All those employees and customers need applications to help them shop and work. Traffic Foundation is an organization inside Walmart Global Tech that builds smart networking infrastructure (CDNs, load balancers, proxies, DNS resolvers, etc.) to make sites faster and more reliable for customers and employees.

L3AF provides full lifecycle management of eBPF programs giving us a sandboxed environment for running custom programs in the Linux kernel. eBPF and XDP are the technologies L3AF builds on top of to give us an ultra-high performance programmable network data plane that executes prior to the Linux networking stack. To know more about L3AF, please visit https://l3af.io/

About The Job

As an L3AF engineer, you will be responsible to do the following:
• Participate in medium to large scale, complex, cross-functional projects, from discovery to production
• Develop innovation strategies, processes, and best practices
• Collaborate within open-source community to develop and implement cutting-edge technologies in Linux kernel
• Evangelize new products and features to existing and potential internal and external customers

Skillsets
• 2 + years of software development experience in SDN or related technologies
• Proficient in C, Go (Golang) programming languages
• Development experience with network drivers or eBPF/XDP
• Development or Operational expertise with Linux kernel
• Experience and knowledge with cloud platforms (OpenStack / Public cloud)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity and experience working with large scale infrastructures, and being able to explain reasons for specific design decisions
• Willingness to support code in production and be a point of escalation to resolve issues

Nice To Have
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers
• History and experience contributing to open-source projects is a huge plus

Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people