2 days ago
Chennai, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy and architecture for the service mesh platform across multi-cluster and multi-environment deployments.
- Design and implement traffic management, resiliency, mTLS, authentication and authorization, and policy capabilities.
- Build platform onboarding capabilities including templates, golden paths, automation, and self-service workflows.
- Define standards for service connectivity, identity, zero-trust posture, performance, reliability, scalability, SLOs, SLIs, and operational runbooks.
- Establish metrics, logging, tracing, and end-to-end observability standards across services and clusters.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
- Evaluate and introduce mesh capabilities including ambient patterns, gateways, extensibility, and multi-tenancy.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, improve testing rigor, and influence organization-wide platform adoption.
- Represent the team in architecture forums and align stakeholders on platform roadmaps.
Requirements
- 15–20 years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 5 years of software engineering experience, or 7 years of software engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration, including cluster architecture, networking, upgrades, multi-cluster environments, RBAC, admission, and controllers/operators.
- Strong hands-on experience with Istio or comparable service mesh technologies such as Linkerd, Consul, or App Mesh.
- Experience with traffic management, security, gateways, service discovery, control-plane operations, and upgrade strategies.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native networking, CNI, Envoy/L7 proxies, DNS, east-west traffic, gateways, and load balancing.
- Experience designing for reliability and scale, including SRE principles, SLOs, capacity planning, and failure-mode analysis.
- Experience building platform tooling and automation with GitOps, CI/CD, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Proficiency in at least one systems language, with Go preferred and Java, Scala, or Python acceptable; operator/controller development is a plus.
- Deep observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing.
- Experience with zero trust, least privilege, secret management, and collaboration with security or compliance teams.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to drive alignment and influence without authority.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree plus 3 years of software engineering experience and knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility practices.
Benefits
- Performance-based incentive awards.
- Maternity and parental leave.
- Paid time off.
- Health benefits.
- Daily work is based in the Bangalore or Chennai office, with flexibility to manage personal matters.
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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.