PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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What you'll do...

About the team

Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a passionate and innovative software engineer to join Traffic Foundation within Walmart’s Global Technology Platform group. Traffic Foundation is empowering application teams at Walmart to reach their customers in the fastest, most efficient way possible. We build and design systems handling millions of requests per second, play a critical role in scaling Walmart systems under the extremely high-traffic situations, and provide tools to accelerate, secure, and distribute traffic to all the right places.

In this role, you will get to design and build high-performance, next-gen config distributed systems, at massive scale. Working with teams across E-Commerce, Stores, and everything in between to make Walmart technology the fastest and most resilient in the industry. This critical role will be responsible for leading and participating in medium to large scale, complex, cross functional projects. Capable of taking complex problem domains, dissecting them until they’re well understood and delivering excellently engineered solutions.

• Design and develop the architecture of the distributed config distribution solution, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team to ensure the solution is developed in accordance with the company's technology standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with other technical leaders to ensure alignment with the company's technology strategy.
• Develop and maintain the distributed config distribution solution using programming languages as Golang, good to have - C, or C++.
• Design a config pipeline that integrates with multiple infrastructure systems, including databases, cache frameworks, Go services, cloud components, proxies, and load balancers.
• Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code that meets the company's coding standards.
• Drives technical vision and influences product roadmap and vision
• Implement large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects
• Leads the discovery phase of large projects to develop high level design
• Supervise the work of cross-functional groups of engineers, including offshore associates
• Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Develops innovation strategies and best practices by leading technical teams, partnering with cross-functional teams, and communicating with executives.

What You’ll bring

• 13+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• Proven expertise in programming languages such as Go, C, and C++, with a strong background in designing and architecting large-scale systems over 10+ years.
• Experience with configuration management systems and distributed systems architecture.
• Managed systems with >1K servers
• Strong understanding of software development life cycles, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Experience with cloud (Azure/GCP preferred)
• DevOps experience
• Clear understanding of TCP/HTTP/gRPC request/response protocols/lifecycle
• Hands-on experience in dealing with SQL / NoSQL databases as well as distributed cache frameworks
• Ability to interact effectively with a variety of business and technical stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing technical documentation
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

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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