Solutions Engineer

About Varnish Software

Varnish Software's powerful caching technology helps the world's biggest content providers deliver lightning-fast web and streaming experiences for huge audiences, without downtime or loss of performance.

Our solutions combine flexibility with robustness to speed up media streaming services, accelerate websites and APIs, and enable global businesses to build custom CDNs—unlocking unbeatable content delivery performance and resilience. Our customers are able to scale easily to match peaks in demand, protect their critical infrastructure, and keep costs predictable, enabling them to deliver great web experiences for all users, at all times.

To support our customers in developing and implementing creative solutions for their biggest challenges, we are now looking for customer-facing engineers who can deliver Varnish projects remotely or onsite.

About the Role

As a Solutions Engineer at Varnish, you will:

• Become a Varnish technical specialist and trusted expert

• Collaborate with Sales teams to identify, qualify, and align customer technical needs with Varnish business solutions

• Increase win rates in technically complex sales cycles

• Deliver tailored implementation projects, including onboarding, monitoring, high availability, integration, and development

• Travel frequently to meet and work with customers—including some of the largest and most recognized brands in their markets—with flexibility based on location and project needs

• Work directly with Engineering teams to develop solutions that address emerging trends

• Play a key role in shaping the technical and architectural decisions of our customers

The ideal teammate will have the following:

• Over 5 years of relevant experience building and operating distributed systems, with hands-on expertise in CDN and caching solutions.

• Strong Linux or Unix background, preferably in a hyperscale, or telco environment

• Deep understanding of HTTP, APIs, request/response flows

• Caching strategies (TTL, invalidation, consistency) and CDN setups

• Proven experience in a customer-facing technical role, such as Solutions Engineering, Technical Account Management, Technical Support, or Pre-Sales, where explaining technical concepts and architectural trade-offs was part of the job

• Experience using at least one scripting language (ie. js, Bash, python, lua)

• A superb communication skill set is desired, with an ability to convey Varnish's technical capabilities (written/spoken) to both business and technical decision makers.

• Adaptable to new technological trends

• Fluent in both written and spoken English

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building and operating distributed systems in production, such as high-traffic web platforms, APIs, CDNs, or similar environments (or equivalent practical expertise).

• Hands-on experience with caching, CDN technologies, or traffic-heavy web infrastructure, including understanding of performance, availability, and scaling considerations.

• Strong Linux/Unix experience in production environments (installation, troubleshooting, monitoring, performance tuning).

It's a bonus (but not a requirement) if you have experience with:

• Hands-on experience with Varnish Cache and/or VCL

• Knowledge of web, HTTP, or API security concepts, such as WAF or WAAP

• German language skills (helpful for supporting some customers, but not required to be successful in the role)

• Commercial awareness or experience supporting technically complex sales cycles

• Prior experience working closely with R&D or product teams on customer-driven improvements

Our Team

At Varnish Software, innovation is at the core of everything we do. We're proud of our products and the people behind them, and we seek team members who are curious, collaborative, and motivated to make an impact.

You'll join an open and international team in a high-trust, supportive environment, working alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry. We move fast, value initiative, and support each other in doing our best work. In return, we offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, generous vacation time, and the flexibility to work in a way that helps you perform at your best.

Varnish Software is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.

What We Offer

• Ability to influence product development, including administration and analytics tools

• A happy, creative, non-hierarchical work environment where you are a valued member of the organization

• An international environment with offices and colleagues around the world

• Opportunities to showcase your work at community meetups and industry conferences

• Participation in a support rotation to stay close to customer needs

• Involvement across the full lifecycle of software products

• Interaction and collaboration with top global customers

• Opportunities to present Varnish technology at major industry events

How to Apply

Ready to join our team? Click the Apply button to get started. Even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we strongly encourage you to apply—many of our best hires didn't check every box. We're excited to learn more about you, your strengths, and how you could contribute to our success.

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