Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...The Walmart Cloud Native Platform (WCNP) is Walmart's next-generation platform designed to run millions of workloads across global regions with high availability, cost efficiency, and enterprise-grade security. WCNP provides the foundational layer for Walmart's digital ecosystem, powering customer-facing applications, backend services, and critical business operations at scale.
WCNP is built on Kubernetes and cloud-native principles, integrating advanced fleet management, workload orchestration, and service reliability capabilities. It delivers:

• Scalability to support massive seasonal and event-driven demand.

• Resiliency through distributed, multi-region clusters and automated failover.

• Efficiency via optimized resource utilization and FinOps-driven cost management.

• Security & Compliance with zero-trust, policy-driven guardrails, and enterprise identity integration.

• Innovation by adopting AI and agentic AI to enable predictive scaling, anomaly detection, and autonomous remediation.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader responsible for architecting and evolving large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms with enterprise-grade reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You will define control plane transformation strategies, drive technical roadmaps, and mentor senior engineers. In addition to deep Kubernetes and cloud expertise, this role requires advanced skills in security, multi-tenant architecture, and AI/ML integration. You will also lead the adoption of agentic AI systems to enable predictive scaling, autonomous remediation, and intelligent fleet management at scale.What you'll do...

About the team

The Walmart Cloud Native Platform (WCNP) is Walmart's next-generation platform designed to run millions of workloads across global regions with high availability, cost efficiency, and enterprise-grade security. WCNP provides the foundational layer for Walmart's digital ecosystem, powering customer-facing applications, backend services, and critical business operations at scale.

What You'll Do

• Architect and evolve large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms with high availability and resiliency.

• Drive control plane transformation (federation, sharding, HA strategies, zero-downtime upgrades).

• Define technical roadmaps for fleet scaling, automation, and security at enterprise scale.

• Integrate AI/ML and agentic AI systems for predictive scaling, anomaly detection, autonomous troubleshooting, and self-healing of clusters.

• Mentor senior engineers and influence platform direction through cross-team collaboration.

What You'll bring

• Proven expertise in large-scale Kubernetes architecture (tens of thousands of workloads, multi-region years)

• Strong experience in control plane scaling and evolution (API server, etc, HA design years)

• Track record of building frameworks for quota management, bin-packing, and fleet optimization. (4-6 years)

• Advanced security leadership (multi-tenant isolation, zero-trust principles, Dex integration, compliance frameworks years)

• Demonstrated ability to design and apply AI/ML, including agentic AI for autonomous remediation, contextual decisioning, and inter-agent collaboration in cluster operations. (3-5 years)

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.

Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our 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 being inclusive of all people.

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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