(IND) PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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About Team

U.S. Technology: This business closely partners with our U.S. stores and eCommerce business to serve customers by empowering associates, stores and merchants with technology innovation. rom grocery and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. provides the deep assortment that our customers appreciate — whether they're shopping online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps or shopping in a store. The focus areas include customer, stores and associates, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science and search & personalization.

Omni Availability is dedicated to the mission of reshaping how our customers interacts with us and making it frictionless and faster for them to get what they want while building a trusted partnership with Walmart. We help bring a seamless experience to our customers irrespective of how and where they engage with us - while shopping online and picking groceries at stores. We operate at the intersection of huge Walmart assortment, millions of customers, thousands of stores, and Walmart associates - a multi-layer multi-objective problem space which has a unique impact on Global consumer base.

We are responsible for design, development, and operations for omni availability encompassing multiple high qps low latency subsystems. We are tasked with building the foundational technologies for Infrastructure & platforms, vital to success at this scale paired with technical solutions for complex business workflows. We are building state-of-the-art machine learnt systems using cutting edge technology that has ability to A/B test in fast iterations, use GPU/CPU based online inferencing of deep learnt and traditional models, event driven architecture that serves personalized experience for customers. This will span many markets, business models and form factors, therefore, we are looking for engineers who will being not only an abundance of experiences in technologies but an abundant curiosity to innovate. All the work we do at Walmart Labs benefits our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better.

• Design distributed systems considering scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, tech stacks, Minimum Viable Product- MVP & Non-Functional Requirements.
• Create simple, modular, extensible and functional design in adherence to the requirements for multiple products/solutions within a domain.
• Work with the Product team to understand Customer requirements and analyze the gaps between existing architecture and customer requirements.
• Analyze system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements like reliability, operability, performance efficiency and security.
• Create detailed design using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for an entire product. Finalize the tech stack.
• Review the MVP to uncover risks and check for performance and usability; guide the team during MVP creation.
• Be the technical leader for the team & not only guiding but actively supporting team as needed and takes end to end ownership of design and architecture of multiple large-scale products.
• Ensure products are well designed, well built and have flexible architectures to meet business needs and future extensibility.
• Contribute actively to tech and arch councils, constantly strive for engineering and operational excellence across the product lines.
• Lead and advocate Agile engineering practices, with a focus on continuous improvement, lean and systems thinking.
• Triaging and Troubleshooting including regression testing, root cause analysis (RCA), root cause corrective action (RCCA) To guide team members in RCA and RCCA to identify the origins of and prevent defects/performance gaps.
• Good active listener, being able to hear and include propositions from other engineers in the final solution.
• Investigate the latest technology trends and build quick Proof of Concept functionalities to address future/current business needs
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, guide the test team with the user scenarios

What you will bring:

• B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline
• 15+ years of experience in design and development of highly-scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly for multi-tenant, SaaS products.
• Experience building a 'Code, Deploy, Run' pipeline using DevOps best practises by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization - Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Having proficiency Java/J2EE, Microservices, Cloud Native Architecture
• Hands on experience in Microservices, RESTful webservices development in Java SpringBoot, Dropwizard or equivalent framework).
• Good knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka / RabbitMQ
• In depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture and related stacks (Service Registry, ELK / Splunk, service registry, VMs, etc.) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Knowledge of at least one of Azure/Google Cloud Platforms.
• Self-Starter with the ability to multitask across several priority areas in the face of fuzzy situations.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project.
• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.

About Global Tech.

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 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 a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, 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.

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