(USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer-AI/ML Engineer - Agentic Systems & Site Reliability Engineering
Walmart2 days ago
Base Salary
$169k - $338k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop agentic AI systems for reliability workflows, predictive failure analysis, autonomous incident response, and self-optimization.
- Design multi-agent orchestration platforms and self-healing infrastructure for Walmart’s e-commerce, supply chain, store, financial services, and other systems.
- Build ML-driven observability, anomaly detection, predictive monitoring, autonomous incident resolution, and intelligent capacity-management capabilities.
- Design fault-tolerant systems and tools that improve reliability, latency, availability, scalability, MTTD, and MTTR across hybrid cloud environments.
- Define SLOs and build SLIs with service owners while performing complex troubleshooting and analysis of large-scale distributed systems.
- Drive MLOps, AIOps, platform engineering, CI/CD, reusable SRE infrastructure, intelligent monitoring platforms, and developer productivity tools.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, code reviews, technical guidance, and cross-functional influence across Walmart engineering organizations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related field plus 6 years of software engineering or related experience, or 8 years of software engineering or related experience.
- Expert-level experience with machine learning algorithms, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and production ML deployment at scale.
- Advanced experience with agentic AI, multi-agent frameworks, autonomous decision-making systems, LLM-based agents, and agent orchestration platforms.
- Comprehensive SRE experience including incident, problem, and change management, performance engineering, and capacity engineering for AI/ML systems.
- Expert cloud engineering experience with Azure, GCP, or AWS, plus Kubernetes, Docker, and serverless architectures.
- Deep observability experience with distributed tracing, metrics and alerting, log aggregation, APM, anomaly detection, and predictive monitoring.
- Platform engineering experience with developer platforms, internal tooling, infrastructure as code, service meshes, API gateways, microservices platforms, and self-service ML deployment platforms.
- Experience with mission-critical distributed systems, enterprise-scale SRE, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, and high-traffic consumer-facing systems is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree plus 4 years of experience, MLflow, Kubeflow, Seldon, NLP, computer vision, edge computing, Kafka or Pulsar, chaos engineering, performance optimization, security practices, and open-source contributions.
- Experience implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards, using assistive technologies, and applying digital accessibility practices is valued.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), stock purchase, company-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, and performance-based bonuses are offered.
- Paid time off and/or protected paid time off includes vacation, sick leave, holidays, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Additional benefits include company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and other eligible programs.
- Live Better U provides Walmart-paid education benefits covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs ranging from high school completion through bachelor’s degrees and certificates.
- The position is located at 1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, California; eligibility and benefits depend on job classification and length of employment.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureDatadogDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioKubernetesMLflowPrometheusPyTorchSplunkTensorFlowTerraform
Categories
ML EngineeringSite Reliability
About Walmart
Walmart is a global omnichannel retailer that sells groceries, general merchandise, and services through Walmart and Sam's Club stores and online marketplaces for consumers and small businesses. Its model spans physical retail, e-commerce, advertising, and a vast supply chain, plus pharmacy, health, and financial services. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart Inc. is a public company on the NYSE (WMT) operating in the U.S. and multiple international markets.