Walmart USA Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Arkansas, Bentonville 

259644097

What you'll do...

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be part of the Stores fulfillment product family within Walmart Global Tech. You’ll develop technologies, products, or services for core platforms which speedup development of capabilities to revolutionize the way Walmart store associates fulfill customer orders . This could include innovating and developing platforms which serve multiple use cases with a goal to support GIF applications. These platforms help support build common capabilities which power use cases such as Picking, dispense, or creating more efficient ways to manage store fulfillment systems. You’ll build applications and processes to help have better experience and improve productivity for associates supporting over 5000 store in US and International markets.

What you'll do:

• Participate in medium-to-large scale, complex projects by translating requirements into technical solutions, creating high level design, and collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams.

• Develop high quality code, conduct unit tests, enhance the design of Location Services APIs to prevent re-occurrences of defects, maximize re-use, and improve developer productivity.

• Guide the team to develop efficient continuous integration and continuous development pipelines while maximizing the automation and unit testing coverage.

• Improve Walmart's eCommerce customer journey by delivering new features and ensuring a bug free experience. Enhance the location services APIs to adopt Walmart’s cloud native platform and create highly performant and resilient microservices.

• Implement various caching mechanisms in the APIs to reduce the overall response time SLAs and serve the increasing scale of eCommerce customer traffic.

• Develop innovation strategies, processes, and best practices to improve disaster recovery and mitigation techniques and ensure operational excellence within the team.

• Improve the existing technology platforms by analyzing industry best practices, driving proof-of-concepts, implementing prototypes, and benchmarking against existing solutions.

• Mentor and train other team members in various technical challenges, including reviewing proposed solutions and performing design and code reviews.

• Troubleshoot business and production issues by analyzing impact and criticality; engaging the correct support teams; interpreting results; and performing root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences.

What you'll bring:

• 15+ years of software development. Solid skills in java stack

• Experience leading technical teams from a technical delivery standpoint

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (Cassandra / Cosmos), message stream systems (Kafka), Search (Elastic Search), etc

• Experience working in agile environment (Scrum, daily standups etc)

• Experience of delivering and supporting a large scale production system

• Experience with being a core contributor to a software project: understanding domain and business requirements, being responsible for critical parts of the application

• Experience working with logging and application monitoring stack: Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace Good communication skills, working in multi-team project

• Over 10+ years of experience in Technical Solutions Architecture and design leadership.

• Strong Java, Spring framework, Kafka, SQL and cloud experience such as Azure.

• Strong experience in RESTful Microservices Container technologies such as Docker on Kubernetes Strong API design, development, and management

• Clear Communication, including the ability to create functional charts Ability to multitask between several different requirements and features concurrently

• Experience with cloud native

• Solid experience with REST APIs Strong experience within the Cloud using Azure Experience with using Linux command line tools Experience using source control systems (git) Experience with working with CI/CD (Jenkins/Travis)

• Experience with working with cloud deployments (scaling, resiliency, load balancing etc)

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering (Any), or related field and 6 years of experience in large scale enterprise software development environment; OR Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering (Any), or related field and 5 years of experience in large scale enterprise software development environment.

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 $110,000.00-$220,000.00 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...

2501 Se J St, Ste A, Bentonville, AR 72716-3724, United States of America