Walmart USA Principal Software Engineer 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

952812834

What you'll do...

Responsibilities...

• Lead development of Wal-Mart’s next-generation Capacity Engine back-end platform at a large scale with guaranteed availability targeting mass market usability.
• Lead and participate in medium- to large-scale projects and work in small groups of three to six engineers by providing direction, and examples; identifying short- and long- term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions; implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Build n-tier applications using RESTful Web Services, Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, WCNP, and Cosmos/No SQL DB.
• Build back-end services using technologies such as Java and Tomcat and data stores to enable user interaction with large volume datasets.
• Involved in technical database design including relational database like Oracle and non-relational database like Azure Cosmos.
• Develop robust, maintainable, reusable code and software tools for managing configuration, deployment, monitoring, performance, scalability, availability, security, and alerting for test, integration, and production environments.
• Work with cross functional product and engineering stakeholders to design and implement scalable, performant, extensible solutions with customer needs in mind.
• Participate and involved into architecture discussions to develop system design and architecture for new products or improvements to existing ones.
• Own and implement best practices for supportability, debuggability, monitoring, alerting, dashboarding, CI/CD etc.
• Own and ensure all relevant guidelines (Ex: code review process, code branching strategies, logging best practices etc.) are always followed in the project
• Ensure all the deliverables meets the defined business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs.
• Leading team in designing systems and apps.
• Leading team projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions while gathering requested information.
• Leading the discovery phase of projects to produce high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, and business and user experience teams.
• Work towards improving engineering excellence and the value delivered by the team.

What you'll bring:

• At least 7+ years of experience in architecting large scale systems with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, etc.)
• Experience in leading teams and delivering large scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture.
• Understanding of SaaS or PaaS or IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices. Automated deployment experience is a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
• Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
• Nice to have - Previous experience in the e-commerce domain.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: - Stock Minimum Qualifications...

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...

840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America