1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed platform services and APIs using Java, Python, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Apply system design and low-level design practices to evaluate dependencies, trade-offs, failure modes, scalability, and cost.
- Contribute to Spark-based data pipelines and processing jobs alongside platform engineering work.
- Build AI, GenAI, and agentic-powered developer tooling, workflow automation, and operational capabilities.
- Own service reliability, scalability, observability, SLOs, alerting, distributed tracing, and incident response.
- Contribute to architecture, design, code, and production-readiness reviews across microservices, event-driven systems, and enterprise integrations.
- Partner with data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers on services supporting data pipelines, feature stores, and model-serving paths.
- Mentor early-career engineers and improve engineering quality without formal people-management responsibility.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of software engineering experience with a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or 5 years of software engineering experience without the degree requirement.
- Strong professional proficiency in Java and Python; Go, C++, and Scala are additional pluses.
- Experience building and operating distributed platforms, microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, service contracts, and enterprise integrations.
- Experience with cloud-native engineering, containerization, Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration, infrastructure automation, and production operations.
- Working-level experience with Spark and familiarity with Hadoop/HDFS, Hive, or Kafka.
- Hands-on experience integrating model APIs and GenAI/LLM tooling, building agentic workflows, using embeddings or vector search, and applying MLOps practices.
- Knowledge of observability, distributed tracing, logging, metrics, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, fault tolerance, security, privacy, authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
- Strong system-design, low-level-design, ownership, autonomy, technical judgment, and execution-planning abilities.
- Preferred qualifications include a relevant master’s degree, experience leading information-security or cybersecurity projects, accessibility knowledge including WCAG 2.2 AA and assistive technologies, and Cisco certification.
Benefits
- Benefits include incentive awards, maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and other benefits; the role is based in the Bangalore/Chennai office for daily work with flexibility to manage personal lives.
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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.