Walmart Staff Software Engineer 

United States, Arkansas, Bentonville 

405950925

What you'll do...

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You are an experienced performance engineer motivated to make all things run fast in production
• You are interested in scaling a highly performant ecommerce platform
• You want to define and build the next generation of digital experiences that will have an impact on hundreds of millions of customers
• You enable developers and business teams understand where bottlenecks or issues exist in their services from a performance context.
• You a self-starter who thrives in a startup-like culture
• You enjoy working on complicated technical challenges, learning from and collaborating with experienced engineers
• You want to contribute to the Open-Source community to help improve the performance and resiliency ecosystem

You’ll make an impact by:

• Owning the end-to-end performance with a shift-left attitude through design, launch, and operation: Support architecture design, influence requirements, and help support new product launch.
• Tackling performance issues for cutting edge technologies: Analyze and debug difficult server-side performance issues, identify bottlenecks and optimize product/service performance to improve user experience.
• Working collaboratively with a large group of engineers from all disciplines within Engineering to improve code base performance (e.g. algorithm redesign), reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency and present findings to a group with a varying degree of technical as well as business experience.
• Providing deep visibility to what is going on for all ecommerce sites: Run performance, resiliency and capacity experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various front-end and service tiers.
• Proactively investigate site performance issues in production and work with systems, network, application operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions.
• Effectively collaborate and communicate for better performance governance across all teams in Walmart. Present performance-related findings to various teams including C-level executives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other technical field.
• 15+ years’ experience in a performance engineering, capacity engineering or site reliability role for customer facing solutions preferably in ecommerce production.
• Expert knowledge in Performance testing, profiling, tuning and monitoring tools, especially testing tools such as Silk Performer, Apache JMeter, or LoadRunner.
• Experience in coding/scripting languages such as Java, PHP, Python or Perl or test certification (ISTQB)

• Strong knowledge and experience with Databases (Relational and NoSQL) and/or caching solutions (Couchbase/Redis)

• Expert knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud-like environments.

• Solid DevOps skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux.

• Ability to successfully lead multiple projects while remaining highly technical.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiairty with the Walmart Ecosystem with exposure to open source tools and technologies
• Experience in production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.).

• Self-starter attitude required to experiment with new technologies, research technology trends and apply the results to performance problems

• Basic familiarity with continuous integration tools and frameworks like Jenkins, etc.
• Basic experience with Cassandra, KairosDB, Apache Solr, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark or Grafana and/or Big Data processing technologies.

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 and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...

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