Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As part of this Conversational AI platform team, we are looking for a hands-on Principal Software Engineer for building large-scale distributed systems, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; directing and reviewing design artifacts (for example, proof of concepts, prototypes).

About Team:
Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmart's Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.

What you'll do:

• Evangelize our architectural blueprints by leading the creation and evolution of an integrated architecture program based on business and customer needs. Architectural responsibility for an engineering/PD team for a cross cutting technological concerns (scale, performance, resiliency, etc)
• Partner closely with senior product management and offer strategies that take good advantage of technological opportunities and are technological pragmatic, and accordingly evaluate build-buy-partner decisions for bringing new capabilities to drive building of brand-new capabilities form concept to launch.
• Demonstrating the business value of architecture as an enabler for business strategy implementation and technology innovation measuring and monitoring milestones for reliability, efficiency, security, operational excellence, and cost optimization 
• Improve our technology environment by researching and analyzing industry trends and best practices. 
• Benchmarking industry against internal processes and solutions defining software development guidelines, standards, and processes sponsoring, developing, and influencing continuous improvement initiatives and experiments with innovative technologies evaluating and negotiating with external vendors and services 
• Oversee large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by translating strategies and requirements into technical solutions
• Directing and reviewing architectural artifacts (for example, proofs of concept, prototypes, architectural designs) communicating status and issues to engineering and product leaders as well as other stakeholders.
• Providing technical and thought leadership to the development teams. Partner closely with engineering directors and spanned engineering managers to recruit, develop and retain the teams engineering staffs or experts in the owned cross cutting area.

What you'll bring:

• Over 10 years of experience in architecting large distributed systems with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime.
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum, agile)
• Experience with architecting and building complex, highly available, distributed systems using technologies like - React JS, NodeJS, Java, Redis, Cassandra, WebSocket, Queueing mechanisms like Active MQ, Kafka. 
• Experience/Exposure/Understanding of Conversational A I Platform, • Experience designing/building micro services oriented architecture, Rest API’s, ML and Messaging Platforms.
• Experience with designing and building Mobil Apps - iOS or Android. 
• Experience with Cloud Technologies, Relational DB and No-SQL DB • Hands on with with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as Jenkins and Maven, code coverage tools like sonar. 
• Experience interacting with business and product partners to gather the right requirements.
• Experience as a tech lead who can own and drive products and work with key business stakeholders, while mentoring and growing junior team members.
• Good to have - understanding of NLP and Data Science.
• Provide technical leadership to the engineering teams with design, scaling, performance, DR and highly availability mechanism.
• Mentor teams to define design and development standards, engineering practices around releases, coding, unit testing and incidents management. 
• Build partnerships with cross-discipline team members. 
• Understands the holistic vision and aligns platform architecture with it. 
• Hands on with building CICD pipelines.

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.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .

The annual salary range for this position is $168,000.00-$252,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

- Stock equity incentives

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 and5 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.

Primary Location...

860 W CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-0000, United States of America