(USA) Principal, Software Engineer
Walmart

Job Info

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What you'll do at

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Are you passionate about pioneering cutting-edge technology that can revolutionize the world of associate (employee) experiences? Do you dream of playing a technical role that will shape the future of Global People Systems? If you possess exceptional technical expertise, you may be interested in this opportunity.

Join our dynamic and forward-thinking People Technology engineering organization, where you'll be at the forefront of driving innovation, spearheading transformative projects and foundational improvements. We are seeking a sharp technical leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between business requests and architecting the technical landscape to deliver. Your projects will have tremendous impact, be scalable, and at the center of modernization efforts in Walmart's People Technology organization.

About Team:
The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech's Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you'll do:

• Define and maintain architecture roadmap, technical solutions for new and existing functionality for the products.
  
• Take ownership over architecture qualities of the end-to-end distributed applications.
  
• Deliver architectural services, including guidance and conceptual design as well as technical and process innovations.
  
• Providing technical leadership to the organization, guiding the development of new products and solutions, and ensuring that the organization's technical capabilities align with its strategic goals.
  
• Working closely with senior leadership and other architects to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and promote technical excellence across the organization.
  
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to the engineering teams to help them deliver high-quality products and solutions.
  
• Design complex systems which are scalable and fault tolerant. You will reason about trade-offs (timeliness/accuracy/resource usage) of multiple algorithmic solutions and to highlight the difference in product outcomes.
  
• Drive automation using more adoption and maturity on the CICD stage gates for the applications.
  
• Drive implementation of telemetry features based on the domain requirements to improve the overall operational excellence of the application.
  
• Investigate the latest technology and build quick Proof of Concept functionalities to address future business needs.
  
• Preparing, improving, and introducing new approaches/methodologies/tools and techniques within the pillar
  
• Work to meet delivery commitments of feature content throughout the whole Delivery Lifecycle/Sprints
  
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in both written and verbal modes across multiple functional teams.
  
• Create and capture best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures (e.g., white papers, code samples, blog posts).
  
• Provide guidance and drive engineering excellence covering site reliability, alerts & monitoring, product health and portability.
  
• Builds strong and trusting relationships withthe business stakeholders with more engagement, collaboration, and facetime beyond the 4ITB meetings.
  

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years of hands-on Development experience
  
• Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development. Azure/ GCP/ WCNP preferred.
  
• Hands on experience with building micro-services and event driven architecture and distributed systems using appropriate design patterns.
  
• Risk analysis methodologies - Cost Analysis; Business objectives; Classification of requirements; Domain Knowledge; User stories concepts; Functional / Non-Functional Requirements.
  
• Experience in Software architecture; Distributed systems; Scalability; Design patterns; Disaster Recovery; Tech Stacks; Minimum Viable Product- MVP; Non-Functional Requirements; Detailed Design
  
• Excellent end to end technical understanding of core infrastructure, cloud services, platforms, and micro-services.
  
• Familiar with log centric tooling. Produce time series data and reusable dashboards for use both during and post event.
  
• Experience with more than one programming language (Go, Python Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, JavaScript, preferred).
  
• Experience with Azure, GCP, or private cloud (OpenStack); namely choosing platform components and assembling application and runtime architecture.
  
• Experience with the Serverless framework and serverless architecture.
  
• Experience with microservices architectures and constituent technologies.
  
• Experience with containerization and container platforms. (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Docker EE, OpenShift, Mesosphere).
  
• Experience designing & developing APIs and implementing GraphQL APIs and/or REST APIs
  
• Scripting and Development responsibilities
  
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Saltstack, Chef and Puppet
  
• Build and drive the automation systems that maintain system health
  
• Eliminate Single Point of failure and test disaster recovery and HA regularly.
  
• Embrace Change - Curiosity & Courage - Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
  
• Embrace Change - Digital Transformation & Change - Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.Deliver for the Customer - Customer Focus - Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
  
• Deliver for the Customer - Strategic Thinking - Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team's strategy.
  
• Focus on our Associates - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.
  
• Focus on our Associates - Collaboration & Influence - Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
  
• Focus on our Associates - Talent Management - Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
  

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
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.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Primary Location...
508 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712, United States of America

About Walmart

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

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