Position Summary...
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across the full application stack, driving the architecture, design, and delivery of largescale, cloudnative systems that power highimpact business and customer experiences. This role is applicationfocused and technologyagnostic, requiring a holistic view across user experience, APIs, services, data, and eventdriven systemsselecting the right tools and patterns to solve problems at scale rather than being constrained by specific technologies.
You will work closely with Product, Business, and Architecture leaders to shape the technical roadmap, influence strategic decisions, and ensure solutions meet Quality, Cost, and Delivery (QCD) expectations. As a senior technical leader, you will define engineering standards, drive best practices and nonfunctional requirements, guide teams through complex design and implementation challenges, and mentor engineers to raise the overall technical bar.
This role also plays a key part in modernizing systems, improving developer productivity, and enabling highperforming agile teams across geographiesleveraging strong engineering fundamentals, sound architectural judgment, and modern development practices to deliver scalable, resilient, and maintainable applications.
What you'll do...
About Our Team - Data Ventures
Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmart's data by developing andproductizingB2B datainitiativesthat empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business. As part of this transformation, we're seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment.
What You'll Do
- Provide technical leadership across the full application stack, spanning user experience, APIs, services, data, and eventing, with a technologyagnostic mindset.
- Drive endtoend application architecture and design, creating highlevel and lowlevel designs that scale with business growth and evolving product needs.
- Partner closely with Product Management and Business stakeholders to shape the technology agenda, set priorities, and deliver highimpact, customerfocused products.
- Collaborate with Distinguished Architects, senior engineers, and crossfunctional teams to deliver solutions aligned with established architectural principles and QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) objectives.
- Establish and drive engineering quality, best practices, and nonfunctional standards (performance, reliability, security, scalability), guiding teams to execute them consistently.
- Lead modernization efforts and architectural evolution, balancing shortterm delivery with longterm application and platform health.
- Work across global engineering teams (cloud, platform, analytics, application, and data) to leverage expertise, share best practices, and strengthen the broader engineering community.
- Enable and scale highperforming agile teams by participating in hiring, mentoring senior engineers, and raising the technical bar across teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity and engineering velocity, including leveraging modern DevEx practices and AIassisted development approaches.
What You'll Bring (Revised HighLevel, TechAgnostic)
- 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating largescale, distributed, applicationcentric systems, ideally in multitenant or SaaS environments.
- Proven ability to lead application engineering across the entire stack, from user-facing experiences through APIs, services, data, and eventdriven systems.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems, system design, and cloudnative architectures, applied pragmatically to real-world business problems.
- Demonstrated expertise in API design, domain modeling, and serviceoriented architectures, with a focus on scalability, evolvability, and clear contracts.
- Experience driving endtoend ownership of complex applications, from design through production, operations, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to define and influence architecture and engineering standards across teams without being constrained by specific languages, frameworks, or tools.
- Strong problemsolving skills grounded in computer science fundamentals, with sound judgment in making architectural and technical tradeoffs.
- Proven track record of operating effectively in ambiguous environments, making highquality decisions, and driving alignment across multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to guide teams, challenge assumptions, and build consensus across organizational boundaries.
Your Qualifications
- An Engineering degree (B.E / B.Tech / M.S / M.Tech) in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating largescale, highly resilient, and highly scalable application systems, preferably in cloudnative and SaaS environments.
- Proven ability to lead engineering across the full application stackuser experience, APIs, services, data, and eventdriven systemswithout being constrained by specific technologies or frameworks.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems, system design, and cloudnative architecture, with experience applying these principles to complex, realworld business problems.
- Demonstrated expertise in application architecture, API design, and serviceoriented systems, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, security, and evolvability.
- Handson experience writing, reviewing, and guiding highquality design and code, and driving technical excellence across teams.
- Experience delivering endtoend ownership of at least one large, cloudbased application or platform, from design through production and ongoing evolution.
- Deep understanding of Agile development methodologies, and the ability to work effectively with Product and Business partners to deliver iterative, highimpact outcomes.
- Experience defining and driving engineering best practices, nonfunctional standards, and architectural guidelines, and guiding teams to execute against them consistently.
- Strong inclination to drive change and modernization, with the ability to adapt quickly to new problem spaces, technologies, and evolving business priorities.
- Ability to balance longterm architectural vision with shortterm delivery needs, making sound tradeoffs that optimize for both speed and sustainability.
- Proven ability to mentor and coach senior engineers, raise the technical bar, and influence engineering direction without formal authority.
- Strong focus on reusability, shared frameworks, patterns, and configurationdriven approaches to accelerate development and improve developer productivity.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence, negotiate, and build consensus across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
About Global Tech.
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the worlds largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 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
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.
Mode of 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
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 isand feelsincluded, 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.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 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 3 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. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-2442789
