About Team

Our team builds and operates a large-scale internal platform that provides real-time streaming, messaging, telemetry, and data-processing capabilities for Walmart technology teams. The platform supports business-critical workloads across event ingestion, stream processing, messaging, observability, large-scale persisted data processing, and data-lake use cases.

We work closely with Product Management, internal customers, and dependent engineering teams to expand platform capabilities, onboard new workloads, improve reliability and performance, and operate the platform efficiently at scale.

What you will do

Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
Build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide.
Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery). Within the established architectural guidelines.
Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high performing agile teams.
Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe. You will use your engineering experience and technical skill to define design and overall architecture for highly scalable and robust solutions.
You will work with engineering teams to create high level and low level designs, drive design discussion and technical decisions.
You will come up with quality, best practices, other Non-functional standards and guide the teams to execute them along with helping them on overall technical and design aspects.
You will help implement cutting edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data and Interact with Walmart cross functional engineering teams as cloud, platform, analytics etc. across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community.
You will help and participate with the teams that leverage and contribute to opensource technologies to make impact on a global scale

What You Will Bring

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record in building and operating large-scale distributed systems

Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.

Owning Tech Debt/Tech Modernization.

Hands on experience in Microservices, RESTful webservices development in Java/SpringBoot.

Good knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka / RabbitMQ
Good knowledge in Databases - SQL/No SQL

Demonstrated experience as a technical lead — driving architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex, cross-team projects

Lead the design and evolution of the Control Plane and Data Plane architecture to maximize availability and throughput for real-time feature serving

Deep expertise in distributed systems design — including high-availability architectures, data consistency, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability

Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python — experience building production-grade SDKs, APIs, or platform services is strongly preferred

Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP (BigQuery, BigTable, GCS, Dataproc, Airflow) and/or Azure

Experience designing and operating data stores like Cassandra, BigTable, Redis, BigQuery, Hive, GCS at scale

Familiarity with streaming and batch data pipelines using Kafka, Spark Streaming, or Airflow

Strong understanding of MLOps principles — feature engineering, model training pipelines, real-time inference, and ML lifecycle management

Experience with Kubernetes / container-based microservices architectures

Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud based project.

Ability to balance the long-term big picture and short-term implications of design decisions.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
Mentoring/coaching Senior engineers and other Engineers.
Experience with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar observability stacks for monitoring distributed services

Additional Qualifications

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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.

We're back at work

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.

Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications: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...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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

Primary Location...Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India

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