Staff Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart.
• Join Walmart Global Tech's Data Platform Services organization as an Edge Cloud Computing System
• Staff Software Engineer to architect Edge cloud database systems that autonomously monitor, predict, and resolve issues across the world's largest retailer's technology ecosystem, impacting millions of customers and associates globally.
• You'll lead the transformation of traditional Database Managing/Supporting practices into cutting-edge, self-healing platforms that serve as the intelligent backbone for database administration across all of Walmart's systems.
• Design and architect advanced database solutions and platforms that serve as the foundation for database engineering and operations tools across Walmart's technology ecosystem.
• Establish technical strategies architecture patterns that enable scalability, maintainability, and performance across distributed teams.
• Lead the design of intelligent observability and monitoring interfaces that leverage modern UI patterns for anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and user-driven insights.
• Designing and building API for edge database solutions integrating operational ecosystem.
• Design and deliver code that's readable, maintainable, testable, scalable, reusable, and efficient.
• Introduce AI technologies to the existing operational solutions.
• Mentor fellow engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead design reviews and architectural discussions to establish technical excellence within your team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer, with at least 4+ years in frontend/full-stack development
• Expert-level Ansible, Phyton, and Java, Javascript/typescript skills
• Strong expertise in React and modern JavaScript frameworks
• Strong understanding of containerization and experience with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding building AI agents and integration to existing solutions.
• Strong understanding on RDBMS Database Architecture with experience on Postgres, MariaDB
• Deep understanding of caching, logging, performance tuning, and monitoring strategies
• Solid understanding of the full app development life cycle
• Proficiency with GitHub and version control best practices
• Advanced unit testing expertise and testing frameworks
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or equivalent
• Comfortable working in a distributed team and communicating asynchronously
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead engineering teams
• Experience designing scalable frontend architectures for large-scale systems.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cloud
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• MariaDB
• Postgres
• RDBMS
• React
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.