DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 16
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
The Data Services team within Walmart Global Tech's Global Technology Platform powers mission-critical data infrastructure across the enterprise, enabling SQL, NoSQL, and messaging services for tens of thousands of deployments and supporting multi-petabyte-scale data and millions of requests per second. This Distinguished Engineer role will define and drive the technical vision for NoSQL database platforms at massive scale, with a strong focus on Search & Cache systems, automated scaling, recovery, large-scale system design, and schema registry. The role operates as a hands-on technical leader, shaping platform strategy, guiding architecture, mentoring senior engineers, and partnering with application teams on complex high-scale systems.
What you will do
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the data services teams.
- Lead the design and evolution of highly available, scalable, secure, and operationally efficient NoSQL platforms that support mission-critical workloads at enterprise scale.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across large installations, including performance degradation, query regressions, replication issues, availability incidents, capacity constraints, and operational bottlenecks.
- Build and influence sophisticated tooling, automation, and platform capabilities that improve database reliability, performance, observability, developer productivity, and operational simplicity.
- Partner with application engineering teams to design, review, and optimize database architectures for complex distributed systems and high-throughput workloads.
- Establish technical standards, best practices, reference architectures, and operational patterns for database usage across the organization.
- Influence senior engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and business stakeholders by clearly communicating technical strategy, trade-offs, risks, and execution plans.
- Mentor principal and senior engineers, raising the technical bar across database engineering, distributed systems, performance engineering, and production operations.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 12+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or database engineering experience, with significant depth in database systems.
- Deep hands-on expertise in any database system at scale, preferably NoSQL databases with strong understanding of database internals.
- Proven experience debugging and operating complex database deployments in production, including high-availability, high-throughput, and low-latency environments.
- Experience designing and operating database platforms with strong reliability, availability, backup and restore, disaster recovery, observability, security, and compliance characteristics.
- Strong systems engineering background, with the ability to reason deeply about distributed systems, concurrency, networking, storage, failure modes, and capacity planning.
- Experience building automation, tooling, or platform capabilities around open-source or commercial database systems.
- Proven ability to define technical strategy, drive architecture across teams, and influence large-scale engineering direction without relying solely on formal authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex database and platform concepts to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong track record of mentoring engineers, reviewing architecture, and raising engineering standards across a large organization.
- Strong programming experience in one or more systems or platform languages such as Java, Python, C++, Go.
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2: 8 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 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
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
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