STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart · Posted Oct 14
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
The AI and Data team at IDC builds, enhances, and maintains AI platforms that empower Walmart's data science community, with a focus on scalability, performance, and intuitive developer experiences. The team works on distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and microservices that power mission-critical applications across Walmart Global Tech. This Staff Software Engineer role acts as a product-focused engineer who designs, develops, and operates scalable platform capabilities, drives reliability and production support, and collaborates with global product, UX, and DevOps teams.
What you will do
- Build scalable and distributed systems using modern frameworks and cloud-native architectures.
- Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices with a strong emphasis on performance, security, and reliability.
- Conduct root cause analysis to resolve business-critical issues and identify areas for continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with global engineering teams to share best practices and influence platform direction.
- Provide production support, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving live issues to maintain system availability.
- Implement DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and alerting for production systems.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams (product, UX, and DevOps) to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions.
- End to own ownership of deliverables including development and deployment to QA and production.
- Guide junior team members and help the team achieve collective objectives
- Support customers in different forums, addressing issues or help them follow good practices.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field with 9+ years of experience .
- Strong proficiency in Spring Boot (REST APIs, dependency injection, configuration management).
- Expertise in Java, with deep understanding of JVM internals, concurrency, and multithreading.
- Basic programming skills on Python
- Experience with Spring Data JPA / Hibernate, ORM optimization, and database transaction management.
- Hands on experience and expertise with deployment techniques: docker & Kubernetes
- Experience with one or more cloud providers: Azure & GCP
- Intermediate level understanding of machine learning and Generative AI
- Exposure to distributed processing frameworks: Apache Spark, Ray
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2: 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for your performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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