Walmart

PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Walmart
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3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Guide architectural decisions and best practices for scalable applications.
  • Drive the design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and documentation of software solutions.
  • Build Java-based backend systems, large-scale data-processing applications, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
  • Design data-intensive applications using high- and low-level system design, distributed concepts, concurrency, caching, and event-based systems.
  • Collaborate with architects, product management, business stakeholders, senior leadership, and engineering teams across geographies.
  • Shape product roadmaps, establish priorities, and deliver strategic technical solutions.
  • Use automated deployments, monitoring, alerting, debugging, and troubleshooting practices.
  • Participate in hiring and help build high-performing engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with 10 years of software design and development experience stated in the role requirements.
  • The minimum qualifications also allow either a bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of software engineering experience or 7 years of software engineering experience without the degree.
  • Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and Spark, with experience delivering highly scalable Java applications.
  • Strong high- and low-level system design skills and experience designing data-intensive applications.
  • Knowledge of computer science fundamentals, microservices, data structures, algorithms, problem solving, distributed systems, design patterns, and cloud-native development.
  • Experience with Git, Maven, Jenkins, automated deployments, and CI/CD development environments.
  • Experience writing modular, testable code and unit, functional, and integration tests using JUnit, Mockito, and MockMvc.
  • Experience with relational databases, complex OLAP and OLTP queries, SQL, NoSQL databases such as Cosmos DB, and caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached.
  • Experience with RESTful services, ORM tools, concurrency, garbage collection, monitoring, and alerting systems such as Prometheus and Splunk.
  • Exposure to Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes; knowledge of Azure and GCP is an advantage.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree plus 3 years of software engineering experience and familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility practices.

Benefits

  • Incentive awards based on performance, maternity and parental leave, paid time off, health benefits, and other Walmart benefits.
  • The role is based in the Bangalore/Chennai office for daily work, with flexibility to manage personal lives.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaApache SparkAzureDockerGitGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmJavaJenkinsJUnitKubernetesMavenPrometheusRedisSplunkSpring BootSQL

Categories

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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