4 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across applications, infrastructure, and databases.
- Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement sustainable performance and reliability improvements.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes workloads, including pod failures, resource allocation, scaling, and deployment issues within Walmart Cloud Native Platform.
- Tune PostgreSQL and CosmosDB queries, indexes, execution plans, connection pooling, locking, and resource utilization.
- Participate in critical incident resolution, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and ITIL-aligned change management.
- Write and maintain code, scripts, APIs, automation tools, health checks, remediation workflows, and AI-assisted operational solutions.
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, engineering workflows, observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, database, and platform engineering teams; mentor engineers and own technical issues through validation and resolution.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, production engineering, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field plus 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
- Strong hands-on troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed enterprise applications.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, pod management, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Strong SQL skills, database performance tuning, and query optimization experience.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, Spring Boot, or similar technologies.
- Experience with ITIL Incident, Problem, and Change Management, as well as scripting, automation, and operational engineering tools.
- Understanding of microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and application performance.
- Preferred experience with PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, Walmart Cloud Native Platform, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jenkins, GitHub, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GenAI, LLMs, SRE principles, SLOs, SLIs, and reliability engineering.
- Preferred master’s degree plus 2 years of relevant experience, and knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility practices.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k), stock purchase, company-paid life insurance, and potential stock or performance-based bonus compensation.
- PTO and/or PPTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, voting leave, disability benefits, and military leave pay.
- Company discounts and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Walmart-paid education benefits covering eligible tuition, books, and fees from high school completion through bachelor’s degrees and certificates.
- Primary location is 508 SW 8th St, Bentonville, Arkansas; benefit eligibility depends on job classification and length of employment.
Tech Stack
AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonSplunkSpring BootSQL
Categories
DevOpsSite 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.