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Walmart

Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

. Understand store and OPD business problems and translate them into scalable technology solutions .

Posted 10/31/2026full-timeBangalore • IndiaLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and developing scalable applications, with a strong focus on microservices architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering. Proven ability to lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and drive production excellence through best practices and advanced troubleshooting.

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Microservices DevelopmentDistributed Systems ExpertiseCloud-Native EngineeringProduction TroubleshootingAI/GenAI Tools Application

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Hard Skills
JavaSpringSpring BootGoKafkaSQLNoSQLKubernetesCI/CDPerformance Tuning
Soft Skills
CommunicationInterpersonal SkillsMentoringOrganizational SkillsProblem Solving
Tools & Technologies
Cosmos DBCassandraMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLOracleAutomated TestingObservabilityIncident MitigationRoot-Cause Analysis
Industry Keywords
Scalable ApplicationsEvent-Driven DesignHigh-Throughput SystemsLow-Latency SystemsService SimplificationMulti-TenancyDisaster RecoveryContinuous LearningEngineering StandardsTechnical Leadership

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CassandraCloudJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLNoSQLOraclePostgresSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Understand store and OPD business problems and translate them into scalable technology solutions
  • Architect, design, build and deploy high-throughput, low-latency distributed services and event-driven pipelines
  • Lead architecture and design reviews
  • Drive service simplification, multi-tenancy, multi-region resiliency and disaster-recovery capabilities
  • Own production excellence by troubleshooting complex incidents using logs, metrics, traces and profiling
  • Drive root-cause analysis and prevent recurrence
  • Establish sustainable engineering through best practices, high-quality code, documentation, automated testing, observability and monitoring
  • Apply AI/GenAI tools across coding, code review, testing, debugging, RCA and documentation
  • Help the team adopt agentic engineering workflows
  • Estimate effort, identify risks and plan execution across teams and releases
  • Mentor and coach engineers and provide technical leadership
  • Identify broader issues and trends and their implications for the product and team
  • Drive execution of business plans and projects, remove performance barriers, develop contingency plans and support continuous learning
  • Supervise and develop associates through selection, training, mentoring, assigning duties and performance evaluations
  • Promote company policies, ethics, integrity and the Open Door Policy
  • Evaluate plans and initiatives, consult stakeholders, improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and support community outreach events

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable applications in product-based companies or R&D divisions, with recent hands-on backend coding and Staff-level technical ownership
  • 5+ years of experience building microservices in Java (Spring/Spring Boot); exceptional Go engineers with equivalent distributed-systems depth who can work in Java may also be considered
  • Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking and problem solving
  • Deep distributed-systems expertise: microservices, event-driven design, consistency, idempotency, partitioning, retries/timeouts, backpressure, fault isolation and failure recovery
  • Experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency systems, including performance tuning and caching
  • Hands-on experience with messaging and data platforms: Kafka plus SQL/NoSQL stores such as Cosmos DB, Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
  • Cloud-native engineering: Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing and observability
  • Excellent production troubleshooting skills: logs, metrics, traces, thread dumps/profiling, incident mitigation and root-cause analysis
  • Practical, advanced use of AI/GenAI tools in day-to-day engineering, with disciplined validation of output
  • Staff-level influence: architecture reviews, mentoring, raising engineering standards and collaborating across teams
  • Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills
  • Minimum qualification alternative: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area, or 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area
  • Preferred: Master's degree in a relevant field and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Incentive awards for performance
  • Maternity and parental leave
  • PTO
  • Health benefits
  • Compensation package
  • Flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives