The R&D Department
Develops and maintains Varnish Enterprise, Varnish Controller and Varnish Traffic Router ⚡️
What we do
R&D develops and maintains the Varnish Software products, which includes Varnish Enterprise, Varnish Controller and Varnish Traffic Router. Furthermore, we're responsible for the internal IT systems and the IT-security.
We are also involved in some exciting research projects and collaborations, just look at what we did together with Intel 🚀
We don’t rush products or releases, because we're in this for the long haul. Therefore, we develop products that will be useful to the world for a long time, prioritizing quality over quantity.
Our developers have a lot of freedom in their everyday work. All of our developers have the possibility to choose a certain technical area of interest, to that extent that they’ll become experts in the subject. So you could say that continuous learning is in our DNA.
All voices are heard, solely based on expertise, not seniority. We provide an open-minded, fun and techy work environment, where we help each other grow!
Want to know more about our software?
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Varnish Enterprise
Varnish Enterprise is the commercial version of our Open Source Varnish Cache. Varnish Enterprise is the software that makes it easier for customers to accelerate digital interactions, handle a larger volume of traffic, protect their infrastructure, and reduce costs, all while giving them control over how, when, and where digital content is delivered. Made in Oslo 🇳🇴
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Varnish Controller
The Controller is a robust, UI-based administrative tool for managing global clusters of Varnish instances and deploying configurations, monitoring, and access control. In other words, it simplifies, speeds up, and makes it more time-efficient for our customers who use our products while reducing complexity and improving performance. Made in Karlstad 🇸🇪
Read more about the latest release on our website
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Varnish Traffic Router
The Traffic Router is an HTTP and DNS-based request router for Varnish Enterprise. It makes sure that users and upstream CDNs fetch content from the optimal Varnish cache, for excellent user experiences at scale. The Traffic Router is tightly integrated with Varnish Controller and helps to simplify web service operations, maintain availability, guarantee QoS, and extend reach. Made in Karlstad 🇸🇪
Who we are
The R&D department consists of 25 easy-going and skilled employees located in our development offices in Karlstad and Oslo and remote working colleagues in the US, France, Tokyo, the northern part of Norway and southern and western part of Sweden.
Except for a common technical interest and passion, we are a group of people with mixed hobbies. Here you’ll find the more active people who enjoy running, biking, hiking in nature and even one or two crossfit enthusiasts. You’ll also meet people with a diverse taste in music and people with a serious interest in cooking, especially how you can make the best pizza at home, coffee geeks, bookworms and beer connoisseur (we sincerely hope that you haven't missed out our Varnish Brewing). In the Oslo office, we even have a few self-appointed table tennis champions 🏓
Some of the perks at R&D 🎉
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Dog-friendly workplace 🐶
We have 3 office dogs in the Karlstad office (Gibson, Nelson and Rick), while we have one office dog (Tyra) in the Oslo office. They provide a great amount of emotional support if needed
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Choose your technical set-up 🖥️
You get to choose your own technical set up, in order to bring out the best in you. The set up shouldn't be the limitation
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Flexible working hours 🧘♀️
At R&D, you'll easily get your life together. We have flexible hours and flexible working settings
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Develop & learn new things 📚
Everyone at R&D have the opportunity to take one day a month to learn something new or maintain existing knowledge. A course, conference or a book, the choice is yours!
Varnish Cache
Varnish Cache is the popular open source project that millions of developers have downloaded since the first release back in 2006.
Varnish Cache is an HTTP reverse proxy that works by caching frequently requested web pages, so they can be loaded quickly without having to wait for a server response.
When a user requests a particular webpage, Varnish checks to see if the page is already in cache. If it is, Varnish serves the content directly, which saves a lot of time compared with sending requests to the origin server.
We still have team members who are involved in Varnish Cache and the community! So in other words, we haven't forgotten our roots.
What does our engineers think? 💭
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You're responsible for your own projects and you get a lot of freedom with it. Our main focus is on quality. That's one of the greatest things about the Varnish family. Then there is the fact that we're a fantastic team. We have fun at work and also outside of working hours.
Sven
Senior Software Engineer, Karlstad 🇸🇪
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It's really easy to find a work-life balance, because of the freedom we're given and that the we set our own goals. Flexible time for real, I would say. And, of course, it's fun to go to work, I enjoy my daily tasks and my colleagues.
Adam
Frontend Developer, Karlstad 🇸🇪
Contact
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