Walmart Schema Registry (WSR) is where Walmart teams publish, version, and validate Protocol Buffer schema definitions. From those schemas, WSR generates Java, Go, and Rust bindings for consumers. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will set technical direction across the registry server, the codegen pipeline, and the GitHub-based schema workflow, and you will drive multi-quarter initiatives that impact many teams.What you'll do...
About the team
Walmart's Global Tech Platforms (GTP) organization powers the tools, platforms, and services used by thousands of engineers across the company.
The Walmart Schema Registry team builds the platform that keeps Walmart's data contracts consistent and safe to use. WSR runs on WCNP (Kubernetes on Azure AKS), stores metadata in Google Cloud Spanner, and integrates with GitHub Enterprise, PingFederate SSO, Artifactory, Concord, and LooperPro. Schemas are shared contracts across Walmart, so the work has wide impact.
Your work will influence how software is delivered across Walmart and ultimately help millions of associates better serve hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.
What You’ll Do
- Own architecture and design for the registry server (Rust, gRPC), including schema validation, compatibility rules, and codegen job orchestration.
- Lead the evolution of multi-language codegen (Java, Go, Rust) and artifact publishing across Artifactory, Concord, and LooperPro.
- Design the schema-as-code workflow on GitHub Enterprise, covering PR checks, approvals, merges, and releases, and drive secure-by-default identity and authorization practices.
- Define SLOs, observability, and on-call practices, and lead reliability and incident response for a production platform.
- Mentor engineers and partner with consumer teams and security reviewers through design reviews and technical standards.
· Establish engineering best practices through code reviews, design reviews, technical standards, and mentoring.
What You’ll bring
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with ownership of production distributed systems.
· Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, microservices, and platform engineering principles.
- Strong proficiency in Rust or Go, with experience building async, concurrent server software.
- Hands-on experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and API design.
- Experience operating services on Kubernetes, and working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT-based security.
- Experience with a globally distributed or relational database (such as Spanner, CockroachDB, or PostgreSQL) and a track record of technical leadership. Exposure to schema compatibility tooling, Maven/Artifactory, or GitHub App and CI integrations is a plus.
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.
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 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
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 areaPrimary Location...Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , IndiaSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area, plus 4 years of software engineering experience; alternatively, 6 years of software engineering experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of production distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, microservices, and platform engineering principles.
- Strong proficiency in Rust or Go, including experience building asynchronous and concurrent server software.
- Hands-on experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and API design.
- Experience operating services on Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT-based security.
- Experience with a globally distributed or relational database such as Spanner, CockroachDB, or PostgreSQL.
- Track record of technical leadership.
- Experience with schema compatibility tooling, Maven or Artifactory, or GitHub App and CI integrations.
- Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area, plus 2 years of software engineering experience.
Walmart Global Tech Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation packages typically include base pay, performance bonuses, and stock awards, with access to an employee stock purchase plan. Feedback suggests annual bonus structures and stock grants are a consistent part of total compensation in many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a company 401(k) match and stock purchase options that support long‑term savings. Feedback suggests these programs are a notable strength within the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family benefits feature paid parental leave and adoption assistance, alongside tax‑advantaged accounts for healthcare spending. Feedback suggests these supports contribute meaningfully to perceived total rewards value.
Walmart Global Tech Insights
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
