(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the team

The Advertisers Insights team is responsible for the measurement, reporting, and analytics backbone of Walmart International’s advertising platform. The team builds systems that transform raw ad interaction data into trusted, privacy-safe insights for advertisers, merchants, and internal stakeholders across Walmart’s international markets.

Build Insights owns the end-to-end ad measurement lifecycle, including:

• Event ingestion: Collecting high-volume ad events (impressions, clicks, conversions) across multiple international markets
• Measurement & attribution: Powering attribution models, conversion tracking, and performance metrics
• Reporting & analytics: Enabling near real-time and offline reporting dashboards for advertisers and internal teams
• Data correctness & trust: Ensuring metrics are accurate, consistent, and explainable across systems

Privacy-first measurement: Designing systems that comply with global privacy regulations ( consent, data residency)

What You’ll Do

Technical Leadership

• Own and evolve core backend and data architectures supporting ad serving, bidding, measurement, and reporting

• Lead design reviews for complex distributed systems and data pipelines

• Set best practices for system reliability, performance, data correctness, and privacy

• Act as a technical multiplier across multiple teams (mentorship, reviews, RFCs)

Backend Systems

• Design and build high-throughput, low-latency services for ad serving and real-time decisioning

• Work on systems handling millions/billions of events per day

• Optimize APIs, storage, and compute for scale, cost, and reliability

• Improve observability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence

Data & Analytics

• Architect and maintain streaming and batch data pipelines for logs, metrics, and user/event data

• Ensure data quality, lineage, and correctness across real-time and offline systems

• Partner with data science and analytics teams on experimentation, attribution, and measurement

• Design data models that support both real-time insights and long-term analytics

Cross-Functional Impact

• Collaborate with Product, DS, Privacy, and Infra on roadmap and trade-offs

• Influence technical direction without formal authority

• Balance speed, correctness, privacy, and cost in Ad Tech environments

What You’ll bring

• 5+ years of backend and/or data engineering experience, with Staff-level scope

• Strong experience building distributed systems at scale

• Deep knowledge of backend fundamentals: concurrency, networking, APIs, storage, caching

• Solid experience with data systems, such as:

  • Streaming (Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming)

  • Batch processing (Spark, Beam, Hive)

• OLAP/analytics stores (BigQuery, Snowflake, Druid)

• Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Scala, Go, Python)

• Experience designing systems with high data volume, low latency, and strict SLAs

• Strong system design, debugging, and performance optimization skills

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.

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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