Walmart

Staff, Data Engineer

Walmart
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Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Java, and Python.
  • Apply software engineering practices including clean architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, domain-oriented design, system design, and low-level design.
  • Build and maintain services, APIs, and distributed systems supporting data pipelines and the broader platform codebase.
  • Integrate embeddings, vector search, LLM-assisted data quality, anomaly detection, agentic monitoring, self-healing, and AI-assisted schema and lineage documentation.
  • Partner with data scientists and ML engineers on feature pipelines, model-serving data paths, and MLOps infrastructure.
  • Own data quality, observability, governance, reliability metrics, SLO/SLA practices, incident management, and post-incident reviews.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews across data engineering and platform engineering.
  • Set technical direction and best practices, mentor engineers, and influence broader data engineering standards.
  • Evaluate emerging Big Data, cloud, and AI technologies and adopt them where they improve reliability, productivity, or business value.

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 for distributed data processing.
  • Deep experience with Spark, Hadoop/HDFS, Hive, Kafka, workflow orchestration such as Airflow, batch and streaming processing, and large-scale data transformation.
  • Experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT pipeline design, data quality and observability, data governance, and lakehouse architectures such as Delta Lake, BigQuery, and Databricks.
  • Hands-on experience integrating model APIs and GenAI/LLM tooling, building agentic workflows, using embeddings and vector search, and applying MLOps practices such as feature stores, model lifecycle, and retraining pipelines.
  • Working knowledge of platform engineering, microservices, API design, Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices.
  • Strong distributed-systems, event-driven, asynchronous-processing, fault-tolerance, domain-oriented design, low-level design, system-design, testing, code-review, and design-pattern skills.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Minimum qualifications include one of: a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 4 years of software engineering or related experience; 6 years of software engineering or related experience; or a master's degree in Computer Science and 2 years of software engineering or related experience, plus 3 years of data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics experience.
  • Additional experience with Go, C++, or Scala is preferred.

Benefits

  • Incentive awards may be available based on performance.
  • Benefits include maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and other company benefits.
  • The role is based in the Bangalore or Chennai office for daily work, with flexibility to manage personal lives.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkC++DatabricksGoGoogle BigQueryJavaKubernetesPythonScala

Categories

Data Engineering
Walmart

About Walmart

10,000+ employees

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.

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