PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is EBS. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. 

What you will do

• Architect and build solutions that impact millions of associates and customers across the globe.
• Design and deploy scalable, cloud-native systems with a focus on AI applications including LLM-based solutions and generative AI.
• Lead the adoption and integration of advanced tools in AI, big data, microservices, and cloud platforms such as Azure.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning by contributing to tech communities and collaborating across teams.
• Partner with data scientists, product managers, and engineers to deliver integrated AI solutions that align with business goals.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs, Kafka streams, and Cosmos DB to support real-time data processing.
• Apply big data technologies such as Kafka to manage and analyze large-scale datasets effectively.
• Champion best practices in CI/CD and DevOps to ensure reliable, high-quality software delivery.
• Facilitate design thinking workshops, conduct code reviews, and offer technical mentorship to drive excellence and innovation.
• Support and mentor team members, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

What you will bring

• Industry Experience: 14+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on building and scaling distributed, high-availability systems.
• Technical Skills: Strong development experience with React, React Native, JavaScript, Java and Python.
• AI/ML Expertise: Hands-on experience with AI/ML, including integrating large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning techniques.
• Cloud Knowledge: Deep understanding of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), cloud-native architecture, and deployments.
• Infrastructure Skills: Proficiency in Kafka, Cosmos DB, REST APIs, and GraphQL.
• Containerization: Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes for orchestration and deployment.
• DevOps Proficiency: Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, Git, and tools like Jenkins.
• System Design: Experience designing scalable microservices-based systems.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to lead and mentor in a dynamic environment.

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 with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, 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.

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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