Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...You are right for the job if you are comfortable with System design, Architecture, deep technical Linux, networking topics, and distributed architectures. You will work cross-functionally amongst a variety of teams and be a core contributor in every significant engineering service or solution that we deliver to our stakeholders. You will excel if you have enthusiasm for digging deep, and a flare for sharp technical communication, prioritization, and organization. You will work directly with our Software Engineering teams to build our next generation "always up" cloud-based e-commerce/Retail and Enterprise platform.What you'll do...

At Walmart Labs (part of Walmart Global Tech), innovation isn't just a buzzword—it's the way we work every day. With over 260 million customers a week, 11,695 stores under 59 banners in 28 countries, and e-commerce websites in 11, Walmart Labs delivers an inclusive, seamless, and transformative shopping experience of the future.

Our global SRE team empower Walmart's digital transformation by solving the industry's largest challenges in scale, reliability, and performance. If you thrive in innovative, customer-first environments and love building solutions that make a difference for millions, then it may be the perfect place for you

As a Staff Sotware Engineer you will have a role that combines technology, innovation, and scalability to design world-class applications, resolve complex outages, and develop systems that redefine the future of retail. Ensure site resiliency to the breakages.

Job Summary

As a critical part of the highly-skilled Site Reliability & Engineering (SRE) Group at Walmart Labs, you'll be responsible for creating resilient, robust, and scalable technology infrastructure to ensure the enterprise and e-commerce platforms deliver seamless experiences. You'll have opportunities to influence large-scale architectural decisions, design cutting-edge solutions, apply automation techniques, and enhance performance, reliability, and functionality for our systems that serve millions globally.

About the team

The Site Reliability and Engineering (SRE) group at Walmart Labs serves a vital role in maintaining mission-critical infrastructure and services that ensure high availability and reliability for Walmart's enterprise and e-commerce platforms. Site Reliability Engineers blend systems engineering and software development expertise to deliver scalable solutions and keep platforms running efficiently. The team collaborates cross-functionally to design fail-proof systems, reduce system downtime, and optimize operational excellence using metrics, automation, and advanced tooling. Team owns solution for continuous profiling, tracing, policy management, etc.

What You'll Do (3 to 5 brief pointers about the roles and responsibility)

Actively contribute to all aspect of development of (but not limited to) Policy Manager which is AI driven platform that provides governance and control of changes that are going into production. Our team has built several policies and onboarded all teams that use containerized and VM based applications. Manage on-call rotations to monitor and minimize Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) for SRE services. Develop and scale server clusters through automation, containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring systems. Drive service reliability by establishing and maintaining critical Operational Indicators (SLIs and SLOs), setting alert guidelines, and ensuring error budgets are managed proactively. Partner with cross-functional teams to diagnose, investigate, fix, and prevent complex outages and issues stemming from large-scale distributed systems. Design, build, and maintain tools to improve performance, latency, availability, scalability, and overall system reliability of our applications and services. Regularly conduct root-cause analyses, capacity planning, software performance analysis, and system tuning to prevent future issues and ensure seamless scalability.

What You'll bring

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, with at least 12+ years of relevant experience. Expertise in programming languages like Java, Golang, Python, and scripting languages like Typescript or Shell scripting. Proficiency in using Kafka, SQL/No-SQL databases, Elastic Search, Distributed Caching like Memcache/Redis etc. Deep understanding of Unix/Linux system internals, file systems, server protocols, networking concepts, troubleshooting. Extensive experience in developing tools to manage large enterprise applications intrastructure, tracing issues with 100s of applications, realtime monitoring, automated recovery Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale enterprise cloud native systems with an emphasis on scalability and reliability. Proven skills in version control (Git), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud computing technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP. Expertise in CI/CD tools to deploy in cloud native environment. Proficiency in using enterprise monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, and Splunk. Or development of similar in-house tool. Exceptional analytical skills with a system-oriented problem-solving approach and the ability to assess, optimize, and ensure the availability, latency, and reliability of platforms.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

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.

Work

Walmart's culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we're able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while bei

Minimum Qualifications...

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

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...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related areaPrimary Location...G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India

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