7 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Java, and Python.
- Apply software engineering, system design, domain-oriented design, low-level design, testing, code review, and CI/CD practices to data engineering.
- Build and maintain services, APIs, and distributed systems supporting data pipelines and the broader platform.
- Integrate AI, GenAI, agentic workflows, embeddings, vector search, LLM-assisted quality detection, and automated pipeline monitoring into the data platform.
- Partner with data scientists and ML engineers on feature pipelines, model-serving data paths, and MLOps infrastructure.
- Own data quality, observability, governance, reliability metrics, incident management, and continuous improvement.
- Lead architecture and design reviews across data engineering and platform engineering.
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and establish data engineering standards across the organization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on data engineering at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Java and Python and strong working knowledge of Spark are required.
- Deep experience with Spark, Hadoop/HDFS, Hive, Kafka, Airflow or equivalent workflow orchestration, batch processing, streaming processing, and large-scale data transformation.
- Experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT pipeline design, data quality, observability, governance, and lakehouse architectures such as Delta Lake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
- Hands-on experience integrating model APIs and GenAI/LLM tooling, building agentic workflows, using embeddings/vector search, and applying MLOps practices.
- Working knowledge of platform engineering, microservices, API design, Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices.
- Strong distributed systems, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, system design, domain-oriented design, and low-level design skills.
- Experience with SLO/SLA ownership, incident management, blameless post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and engineering excellence.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum qualification pathways include a bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of software engineering experience, 6 years of software engineering experience, or a master’s degree plus 2 years of software engineering experience, along with 3 years of relevant data engineering or related experience.
- Experience with Go, C++, or Scala is preferred.
Benefits
- Performance incentive awards, maternity and parental leave, PTO, and health benefits are offered.
- The role is based in the Bangalore or Chennai office with daily work and flexibility to manage personal lives.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkC++DatabricksGoGoogle BigQueryJavaKubernetesPythonScala
Categories
Data Engineering
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.