2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed platform services and APIs using Java, Python, Kubernetes, or equivalent cloud-native infrastructure.
- Contribute to Spark-based data pipelines and processing jobs alongside platform engineering work.
- Build AI, GenAI, and agentic-powered developer, workflow automation, and operational tooling.
- Own service reliability, scalability, observability, SLOs, alerting, distributed tracing, and incident response.
- Make architecture and system design decisions across microservices, event-driven systems, and enterprise integrations.
- Partner with data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers on data pipelines, feature stores, and model-serving paths.
- Participate in architecture, design, code, and production readiness reviews.
- Mentor early-career engineers and raise engineering quality without formal people-management responsibility.
- Propose practical improvements using emerging platform, cloud, and AI technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 3 years of software engineering experience, or 5 years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed platforms, with strong Java and Python proficiency.
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, event-driven patterns, API design, service contracts, enterprise integration, system design, and low-level design.
- Experience with cloud-native engineering, containerization, Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration, infrastructure automation, and production operations.
- Working-level Spark experience and familiarity with Hadoop/HDFS, Hive, or Kafka.
- Hands-on experience integrating model APIs and GenAI/LLM tooling, building agentic workflows, using embeddings/vector search, and applying MLOps practices.
- Knowledge of observability, distributed tracing, logging, metrics, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, fault tolerance, authentication, authorization, data protection, and secure API design.
- Ability to create execution plans, operate autonomously, exercise technical judgment, and work effectively in a 0-to-1 team environment.
- Additional experience with Go, C++, or Scala is preferred.
- A master’s degree and experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects are preferred.
- Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, accessibility best practices, and Cisco certification are preferred.
Benefits
- Maternity and parental leave, paid time off, health benefits, and performance incentive awards are available.
- The role is based in the Bangalore or Chennai office for daily work, with flexibility to manage personal life needs.
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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.