(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart · Posted Oct 14
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
The UGC – Ratings & Reviews team at Walmart Global Tech builds and operates the next-generation UGC 2.0 platform that powers customer ratings, written reviews, image reviews, video reviews, and seller reviews across Walmart's web and mobile experiences. The platform is cloud-native, event-driven, and built on Golang microservices, Kafka, Cosmos DB, BigQuery, Kubernetes, and Azure/GCP. This Staff Software Engineer role provides technical leadership for the platform, driving architecture, design, and evolution of highly scalable distributed systems while mentoring engineers and modernizing the platform.
What you will do
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable distributed systems powering Walmart's UGC platform.
- Drive the technical vision for cloud-native, event-driven services using Golang, Kafka, Kubernetes, Cosmos DB, and BigQuery.
- Design systems for high throughput, low latency, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
- Lead architectural reviews and establish engineering standards across multiple teams.
- Own complex initiatives from technical design through production deployment and long-term operational support.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Lead root-cause analysis for critical production incidents and implement long-term engineering improvements.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, and secure software development.
- Partner with Product, Program, Business, Data Science, and Engineering teams across the U.S. and India to define technical strategy and execution plans.
- Translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
- Drive alignment across multiple engineering teams and influence technical decisions without direct authority.
- Lead the evolution of Walmart's UGC platform and Event-Driven Architecture.
- Drive migration from legacy systems to modern cloud-native services.
- Improve platform performance, reliability, developer productivity, and operational automation.
- Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies that improve scalability and engineering velocity.
- Mentor senior engineers and engineers across the organization.
- Raise engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching.
- Establish engineering best practices and contribute to long-term technology strategy.
- Foster a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in Golang or Java, with deep knowledge of backend system design.
- Experience building cloud-native applications on Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and service orchestration.
- Strong understanding of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and distributed messaging systems such as Kafka.
- Experience with large-scale data platforms including Cosmos DB, BigQuery, or similar distributed databases.
- Strong knowledge of API design, distributed systems, scalability patterns, and fault tolerance.
- Expertise in observability using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or OpenObserve.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, automation, and infrastructure modernization.
- Excellent debugging, performance tuning, and production incident management skills.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building large-scale eCommerce or marketplace platforms.
- Experience with customer-generated content, moderation systems, or recommendation platforms.
- Knowledge of distributed data processing and streaming architectures.
- Experience with AI-assisted developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar productivity tools.
- Contributions to engineering strategy, architecture governance, or platform engineering initiatives.
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for 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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