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Walmart Senior Manager Software Engineering Machine Learning 
United States, California, Sunnyvale 
609169155

26.08.2024

What you'll do...


Walmart's Advertising Technology group enables the connection between supplier brands and retail shoppers at unprecedented scale. We are a highly motivated group of engineers and data scientists, working in an agile group to solve sophisticated and high impact problems. We serve billions of ad requests every month with our high-performance ad servers. We build smart data systems that ingest, model, analyze and optimize the massive flow of data from online and store user activity and transactions. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms on this data. Above all, we are laser focused on delivering experiences that our customers and advertisers love. This role is part of our Display Ads Server engineering team for Backend Services and will build the next generation omni-advertising platforms to deliver performance and value at scale. A successful person in this role will own major components of the display advertising solution, drive alignment with other teams, guide architecture and technology choices within the team and across WMC. This is a hands-on role and so we are looking with an exceptional and experienced coder first.

What you'll do:

  • Design & develop highly scalable services and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology

  • Gain exposure to various emerging technologies used in Marketing and Advertising on Walmart E-commerce platforms.

  • Provide technical direction, architecture leadership and expertise to the team.

  • Lead by example. Show your chops as an exceptional and experienced developer.

  • Drive projects of high visibility across the organization.

  • Participate in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project, product and business requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirement); designing robust and scalable architectures; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery.

  • Bachelor's Degree or master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML (or related field) and 10+ years of experience

  • Proven experience in leading or managing machine learning/AI teams, with a track record of successful project delivery

  • Work closely with data scientists, engineers, researchers, and product managers to implement AI/ML solutions into Display Ad Serving platform.

  • Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, databases, machine learning, etc.

  • Excellent communication skills and a great teammate; collaboration with data science team

  • Experience in Java, Scala, Object Oriented & Functional Programming, Design Patterns

  • Experience in coding and implementing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed eco-system with Cloud Technologies like Azure and GCP

  • Experience in Apache Hadoop, Map-reduce, Apache Spark, and in messaging Systems as Kafka

  • Strong expertise in designing and building scalable APIs & cloud native microservices with integration with ML models.

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 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.



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.
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...

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