(IND) PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our team. > As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide deep technical leadership across engineering teams — architecting scalable platform capabilities, setting engineering standards, and mentoring senior engineers to drive long-term technical excellence. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements and collaborate with other engineers to ensure the successful delivery of projects.

What you'll do...

About Team:

The Acquisition and Discovery Engineering team at Walmart is dedicated to providing a seamless and delightful shopping experience to millions of shoppers worldwide. As a Principal Software Engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to work on top of the funnel shopping experience – Homepage, Content Pages for SEO and SEM, Search & Browse experiences, Deals and Item pages across mobile and web platforms.

This collaborative team made up of Engineering, UX, Product Management, Business and Analytics is rapidly iterating on new products and site features at scale. We deliver high performing solutions on our next generation front-end platform. Virtual Try-On, Gen AI integration, personalized complete-the-look, Video shopping, etc are just a few examples of the features developed by this team in collaboration with many other teams. Continuous experimentation, innovation and feedback by millions of customers makes this work even more exciting!

What you'll do:
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can provide deep technical leadership for large-scale platform and e-commerce systems, solve complex cross-team engineering problems, and establish standards that improve delivery, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability. 

• Define and evolve the technical architecture for platform services, APIs, frameworks, and shared capabilities used by multiple engineering teams. 
• Lead design of scalable, secure, resilient, and observable systems that support high-volume e-commerce use cases. 
• Provide technical leadership across teams by reviewing designs, identifying architectural risks, and guiding engineers toward pragmatic solutions. 
• Act as a hands-on technical expert for critical initiatives, including proof-of-concepts, reference implementations, code reviews, and complex problem resolution. 
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, API design, testing, automation, release engineering, reliability, and operational readiness. 
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering managers, architects, security, SRE, and dependent teams to align technical decisions with business outcomes. 
• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, cost inefficiencies, and platform adoption barriers. 
• Mentor engineers and technical leads by providing design guidance, technical coaching, and feedback that improves engineering capability across teams. 
• Stay current with relevant technologies and evaluate adoption opportunities based on platform fit, operational maturity, security posture, and long-term maintainability.
• Leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Copilot) to improve engineering efficiency.
• Create and maintain architecture decision records, design documents, API contracts, and operational playbooks.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. 
• 14+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems. 
• Strong hands-on expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Swift, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar technologies. 
• Deep understanding of system design, distributed architecture, APIs, data structures, algorithms, cloud-native engineering, and operational reliability. 
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, performance tuning, and production support practices. 
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams and communicate trade-offs clearly to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders. 
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to operate in ambiguous, high-impact technical areas. 
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and contributing to engineering standards, architecture governance, and technical excellence programs. 
• Prior experience in retail, marketplace, supply chain, payments, returns, or high-scale e-commerce platforms is preferred.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, pto, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." by fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal opportunity employer

Walmart, inc., is an equal opportunities employer – by choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India