2 days ago
Base Salary
$132k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical architecture and roadmap for a critical platform domain spanning multiple services and teams.
- Lead the design and implementation of highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed, event-driven Java systems.
- Drive and document cross-team architecture decisions involving availability, consistency, latency, and cost.
- Identify and eliminate systemic reliability, scalability, and performance risks.
- Set operational excellence standards for telemetry, alerting, incident response, and blameless root-cause analysis.
- Lead technical-debt reduction and modernization initiatives across teams and services.
- Mentor Senior Engineers and raise engineering quality through design reviews, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Translate ambiguous, multi-team business problems into technical strategy and milestones with Product and senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent depth is preferred in the role description, with increasing technical scope and impact.
- Expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems such as Kafka at enterprise scale.
- Deep hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL datastores and cross-system schema and data-model decisions.
- Experience owning production systems at scale, including reliability strategy, complex incident diagnosis, and performance tuning.
- Strong system design and architecture experience with solutions used by multiple teams.
- Experience mentoring Senior Engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting architecture and designs to senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to leverage AI tooling and agents to accelerate development, troubleshooting, and team productivity.
- Preferred experience includes Azure, Cosmos DB at scale, Kafka, enterprise distributed systems, and supply chain or fulfillment domain expertise.
- Minimum qualification: a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field plus 4 years of experience, or 6 years of software engineering experience.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Walmart-paid education benefits covering eligible programs from high school completion through bachelor’s degrees and certificates, including tuition, books, and fees.
- Annual salary range of $132,000.00-$264,000.00 plus potential performance bonuses and stock.
- Primary location is 221 River St, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
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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.