Developer for high-performant open source software

About us

Varnish Software is a Scandinavian-based tech company developing powerful caching technology for some of the world's biggest players in the content delivery market. Our products combine open-source flexibility with enterprise robustness to speed up media streaming services, accelerate websites, developer pipelines and APIs, either run as Software as a Service, but also enable global businesses to build custom CDNs

You’ll be joining a globally-distributed company and working on new and cutting-edge development with the Core team. The team is composed of a group of 10 skilled, easy-going members who do incredible things, including breaking speed records in collaboration with Intel. 

As a Systems Developer, you’ll be part of the distributed Core team, located in Scandinavia and France. You will spend most of your time maintaining and developing our core product, Varnish Enterprise and related VMODs. You will develop features, fix bugs, while having the bigger picture and end-user in mind. Part of the job will include low-level OS interfacing to optimize memory handling, disk operations, thread synchronization, etc.

You will get a sense of technical freedom and ownership, since we always consider quality over quantity and work on long-term ongoing projects. At Varnish Software’s Engineering department, you will have the opportunity to influence your own assignments, whether you’d like to participate in customer dialogues, business travels, be involved in the open-source project, or work solely in the technical sphere.

You'll work at our office in Oslo, Norway or Karlstad, Sweden. 

Responsibilities

• Manage your own time well and be self-motivated

• Collaborate with your co-workers and participate in technical discussions

• Test your code and review colleagues’ code

• Fix bugs and improve our software

• Assist with supporting our customers

• Write clean, readable code that is easy for others to understand

• Contribute to our open-minded and friendly culture

Qualifications

• Technical interest and a drive to keep up-to-date with new technologies

• Friendly, humble, and self-disciplined person with a meticulous mind

• A master’s degree from a university or at least 2-3 years of experience as a software engineer

• Comfortable with C, Rust or similar low-level programming language

• Experience with multithreaded applications

• Experience with using test-driven development

• Experience with AWS or other IAAS services

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes 

• Experience with Devops (Github actions, deployment, packaging)

At Varnish Software, we believe that a happy and healthy team is the foundation of our success. That's why we offer a range of benefits and perks, including flexible working arrangements and generous parental pay. 

Ready to join our team? Simply click the "Apply" button to start your application process. We look forward to learning more about you and how you can contribute to our success. Please note that to be eligible for this position, you must have the legal right to work in an EU/EES country at the time of employment. 

Psst…we are also one of those companies that brews their own beer! 🍻 Read more about Varnish Brewing

Varnish Software creates edge caching and content delivery software that unlocks fast, reliable digital experiences for users and systems.

We’re an inclusive employer; seeing diversity as a strong asset. When we’ve different perspectives and approaches, we grow together to create innovative solutions and contributions to software development and to our customers. With this diversity, we have one thing in common; we’re fun and friendly. And we’re in this together!