Staff, Software Engineer
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 14
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
The AI and Data team at IDC builds, enhances, and maintains the AI platforms that empower Walmart's data science community, with a focus on scalability, performance, and developer productivity. The team develops distributed systems and cloud-native platform capabilities supporting machine learning training and inference workflows, along with governance, observability, and lineage controls for responsible AI use. This Staff Software Engineer role involves designing and operating scalable distributed systems, RESTful APIs and microservices, implementing DevOps practices such as CI/CD and monitoring, providing production support, and collaborating with product, UX, data science, legal, governance, and security teams globally.
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.
- Partner closely with Walmart's data science community to enable seamless training and inference workflows using the latest models and runtimes.
- Collaborate with legal, governance, and security teams to establish observability, lineage, and controls that ensure responsible, auditable use of AI assets across Walmart.
- 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
- Understanding of governance requirements and experience enforcing automated controls on AI processes is a plus.
- 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 Global Tech
Walmart Global Tech is the technological powerhouse and engineering arm of Walmart Inc., responsible for building and managing foundational technologies, cloud infrastructure, and software systems. The organization powers global retail operations across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, and Walmart International, delivering customer experiences and enterprise services worldwide. Operating across multiple global hubs, it unites engineering, data science, product design, and artificial intelligence to digitally transform retail.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 25000+ employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President, AI Acceleration, Product and Design
Senior Vice President and Tech Operating Partner, Walmart International