(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team:

As a part of Walmart’s Global Technology Platform, Machine Learning Platform team is responsible for delivering cutting-edge and efficient tools and frameworks which enables Walmart's data scientist community to create solutions that not only offer a delightful experience but also help meet Walmart’s ‘Everyday Low Cost’ promise to the customer. The platform facilitates seamless access for data scientists to services offered by various public cloud vendors, as well as infrastructure resources and software frameworks or runtimes. Additionally, the platform democratizes secure and regulated Generative AI usage among the company's data scientists, thereby reducing the time-to-market for software solutions developed with this technology.

What you’ll do:

At Walmart , you’ll have the opportunity to

• Leads and participates in medium to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects
• Work closely with our product, design, and UX teams to incorporate feature requests to the platform
• Providing technical assistance to a broad community of data scientists and ML engineers using the platform
• Help put tools, processes, monitoring and documentation in place to improve application deployment management
• Trouble shoot production issues working with cross-functional teams
• Setup application infrastructure and productionize applications.
• Enable tools for improving developer productivity
• Drive cost efficiency through use of Kubernetes and advanced platform management automation
• Explore cutting edge, innovative technologies which can improve the performance, stability, scalability and security of applications and productionize them
• Utilizes industry research to improve Walmart's technology environment by analyzing industry best practices
• Give back to the community via open source and blog posts.  
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor's Degree with 9+ years of experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Should have a strong problem solving, logical and analytical thinking, decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills.
• A go-getter attitude and perform independently in an agile environment.
• Very strong understanding and experience in the area of software development lifecycle.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency any of the following programming languages: Java, Python, Golang
• Advanced proficiency in managing deployments based on Docker and Kubernetes
• Advanced proficiency in setting up and maintaining Kubernetes clusters
• Advanced knowledge in working with more than one cloud providers like  GCP, Azure, AWS etc.
• Experience managing high availability / disaster recovery for applications / services
• Advanced knowledge of infosec fundamentals and experience working with security team on getting applications certified
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SQL and Databases
• Expertise with Linux OS fundamentals and shell scripting

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 that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
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.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
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.

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 area

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, SEZ, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India