(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...About Team:

The Store & OPD (Online Pickup and Delivery) Tech organization builds and operates the mission-critical backend platforms that power Walmart's store fulfillment experience. Our flagship platform, GIF (Global Integrated Fulfillment), orchestrates the end-to-end order lifecycle inside the store – from pre-pick and picking, through staging, quality check and packing, to dispense and handoff to customers and delivery drivers – across the US, Canada, Mexico, Sam's Club and Massmart markets.

We run distributed gateway/BFF, order-management and fulfillment services at very high scale on a cloud-native, event-driven architecture (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Cosmos DB/SQL, Kubernetes), across multiple regions with active resiliency and disaster-recovery practices. Store fulfillment volume is expected to roughly double by 2030, and the team is actively simplifying and consolidating services, adopting multi-tenancy, improving resiliency (circuit breakers, timeouts, rate limiting, canary rollouts, failover automation) and enabling next-generation store capacity solutions such as automation and dense storage.

Engineers on this team own their systems end to end – architecture, coding, performance, reliability, observability, deployments and production support – and partner closely with product, store operations and platform teams to deliver a best-in-class experience for store associates, customers and drivers.

What you’ll do:

·         Understand store and OPD business problems and translate them into scalable technology solutions.

·         Architect, design, build and deploy high-throughput, low-latency distributed services and event-driven pipelines.

·         Lead architecture and design reviews; drive service simplification, multi-tenancy, multi-region resiliency and disaster-recovery capabilities.

·         Own production excellence: troubleshoot complex incidents using logs, metrics, traces and profiling, drive root-cause analysis and prevent recurrence.

·         Raise the bar on sustainable engineering through best practices, high-quality code, documentation, automated testing, observability and monitoring.

·         Apply AI/GenAI tools across coding, code review, testing, debugging, RCA and documentation – with disciplined validation of AI output – and help the team adopt agentic engineering workflows.

·         Estimate effort, identify risks and plan execution across teams and releases.

·         Mentor and coach engineers and provide technical leadership to the team.

·         Rise above the details as needed to spot broader issues and trends and their implications for the product and the team as a whole.

What you’ll bring:

·         10+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable applications in product-based companies or R&D divisions, with recent hands-on backend coding and Staff-level technical ownership.

·         5+ years of experience building microservices in Java (Spring/Spring Boot); exceptional Go engineers with equivalent distributed-systems depth who can work in Java may also be considered.

·         Strong computer science fundamentals – data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking and problem solving.

·         Deep distributed-systems expertise: microservices, event-driven design, consistency, idempotency, partitioning, retries/timeouts, backpressure, fault isolation and failure recovery.

·         Experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency systems, including performance tuning and caching.

·         Hands-on experience with messaging and data platforms – Kafka plus SQL/NoSQL stores (e.g., Cosmos DB, Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle); ability to reason about scale, schema evolution and data access patterns.

·         Cloud-native engineering: Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing and observability, with strong ownership of production readiness and reliability.

·         Excellent production troubleshooting skills: logs, metrics, traces, thread dumps/profiling, incident mitigation and root-cause analysis.

·         Practical, advanced use of AI/GenAI tools in day-to-day engineering, with disciplined validation of the output.

·         Staff-level influence: architecture reviews, mentoring, raising engineering standards and collaborating across teams.

·         Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have:

·         Go experience in addition to Java.

·         Redis/Memcached, Cassandra/Cosmos DB and high-scale data-modeling experience.

·         Multi-region/multi-tenant architecture, disaster recovery, resilience/chaos testing and SRE practices.

·         Azure/GCP experience and deep Kubernetes/container platform knowledge.

·         Experience building reusable platform/framework capabilities and developer tooling.

·         Retail, fulfillment, logistics, marketplace or other real-time mission-critical domain experience.

·         Experience building or integrating agentic/LLM-based engineering workflows, not only consuming AI assistants.

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 experts 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.

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.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

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