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 the team

This position is for Hawkshaw platform under Messaging and Streaming pillar part of Data services business with-in GTP org. Hawkshaw is a walmart home grown serverless SOX approved Audit and Reconciliation tool that can manage platform audits and reconciles data pipelines. It provides a platform to ensure the complete, accurate, and timely transfer of data between systems.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build highly scalable distributed systems using Java, Python, ReactJS, Vertx.

• Drive architecture, design, implementation, and operational readiness of platform capabilities from concept to production.

• Build customer-facing platform capabilities that enable self-service onboarding, simplified configuration, and seamless deployment experiences.

• Bring automation and enhance existing integrations for enterprise data platforms.

• Develop reusable platform components, frameworks, and APIs that improve engineering productivity across multiple teams.

• Design fault-tolerant, low-latency flows capable of handling large-scale production workloads.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, customer teams, and partner engineering organisations to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, operational excellence initiatives, and mentoring of junior engineers.

• Improve platform scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency through performance optimisations and architectural improvements.

• Diagnose complex production issues involving distributed systems, streaming workloads, checkpointing, backpressure, data skew, and infrastructure dependencies.

• Drive engineering best practices around testing, automation, deployment, monitoring, and production readiness.

• Take ownership of services running in production, including on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements.

What You’ll bring

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.

• Bachelors/Masters degree on computer science, software engineering or related area

• Strong programming experience in Java & ReactJS.

• Experience with distributed stream processing frameworks such as:

• Working with relational databases like MSSQL

• Working with non relational databases like Cassandra

• Working with messaging systems like Apache Kafka

• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including:

•           fault tolerance.

•           checkpointing.

•           partitioning strategies.

•           backpressure.

•           state management.

•           high availability.

• Experience designing cloud-native micro services and REST APIs.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms.

• Experience building highly available production systems with strong observability using metrics, dashboards, logging, and alerting.

• Strong knowledge of software design patterns, concurrent programming, and scalable system design.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure automation.

• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills for distributed applications.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple engineering organisations and customer teams.

• Demonstrated ownership mindset with experience driving projects independently from design through production rollout.

Nice to have

• Experience building enterprise data integration or ETL platforms.

• Experience working with messaging systems & storage (Presto, Kafka, GCS, Presto, Trino etc).

• Experience building software development kit & open source projects.

• Experience building developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.

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.

We’re back to 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 office for daily work, with 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...Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India