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Walmart Staff Software Engineer - Backend Ad Measurement 
United States, California, Sunnyvale 
381941647

25.09.2024

What you'll do...

  • You are a problem solver with critical thinking.
  • You are a team player, like to collaborate with cross-function teams and influence others.
  • You can overview from high-level and deep dive into details with complex subjects.
  • You have an enthusiasm in technology.
  • You're organized, disciplined, and can lead multiple projects simultaneously.
  • You have high standards in quality and operation excellence.
  • You are always looking for challenges and willing to learn.


What you'll do:

  • Build data systems that ingest, model, and analyze massive flow of data from online and offline user activities, processing hundreds of millions of sales and impressions data to obtain insights and analytics related to advertising campaign performance.
  • Develop big data applications for precise audience targeting and cutting-edge measurement for campaign reporting, leveraging the wealth of data within the Walmart ecosystem.
  • Set up ETL jobs in Jenkins or Airflow to move large volume of distributed data from various sources to secondary data centers for business continuity and disaster recovery.
  • Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause), engage support teams to assist in resolution of issues, formulate an action plan, performing actions as designated in plan, interpret the results to determine further action, and complete online documentation.
  • Develop complex software features to streamline and scale batch jobs to support advertising propensity models.
  • Design, develop, and maintain software for the targeting and reporting data pipelines in Spark, Hadoop and Map-Reduce.
  • Develop software using object-oriented languages such as Scala and Java. Implement advertising measurement systems that leverage machine learning and statistical techniques.
  • Apply regression and classification machine learning methods in developing measurement products.
  • Use Advanced big data scheduling techniques (Jenkins, Airflow) for reliable and recurrent data processing.
  • Perform advanced data investigations using SQL and Spark or Hive.
  • Design and develop systems and methods for ensuring quality for large data pipelines and guide the product through all stages of user acceptance process.

What you'll bring:

  • Experience programming in an object-oriented language (Java or Scala).
  • Experience using Hadoop and Map Reduce in batch jobs to process large scale data.
  • 6+ years of software development experience, machine learning engineering or related field.
  • Experience in creating and maintaining data processing workflows with tools including Airflow or Oozie.
  • Experience using Spark, Hive, or SQL to perform advanced data investigation.
  • Experience implementing statistical and machine learning methods for data classification and regression.
  • Experience working in AdTech with demonstrated knowledge of the AdTech business.
  • Experience developing techniques to ascertain correctness of data processing and transformation implementations using unit, integration, and end-to-end pipeline testing.
  • Experience designing and developing software to perform ETL operations on large datasets.
  • Experience building microservices.

Preferred experiences:

  • PhD in data mining, database system, data management, machine learning, or statistic is a plus.
  • Publications in top-tier academic conference and journal is a plus.
  • Experiences with ad-tech targeting, measurement, identity mapping related domain is a plus.
  • Patents in data or machine learn related domains is a plus.


Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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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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...

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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.
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