Software Engineer III

What you'll do...

Position: Software Engineer III

Job Location: 680 W. California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Duties: Create and maintain distributed data pipelines that collect, process and upload large volumes of user data to drive the effectiveness and efficiency of digital advertising campaigns by leveraging data-driven insights to reach the right audience with the right message at the right time. Develop algorithms for audience segmentation, clustering, and prediction to identify user interests, behaviors, and demographics accurately. Develop Microservices and Restful APIs to create, build and upload audiences to different ad exchange platforms. Develop User Interface to onboard advertisers onto Walmart demand-side platform. Integrate audience targeting platforms with ad exchanges and demand-side platforms (DSPs) to enable targeted ad delivery based on audience characteristics. Optimize the performance of audience targeting systems by fine-tuning algorithms, improving data processing efficiency, and reducing latency in audience building and uploading processes. Setup batch processing jobs, parallel tasks and tune parameters to achieve high scalability. Conduct thorough testing of audience targeting algorithms and systems to identify and fix bugs, ensure accuracy, and improve overall system reliability. Set up monitoring dashboards and alerting to track the health and performance of audience targeting pipelines and identify areas for improvement. Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements, prioritize features, and deliver solutions that meet the needs of audience targeting for advertisers and publishers. Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in AdTech and audience targeting to continuously enhance the skills and capabilities.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related area; OR Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area.

Skills required: Experience with either Java or Scala object-oriented programming languages. Experience with Spark, SQL and NoSQL technologies including Hive and HDFS to perform advanced data manipulation, processing, and data investigation. Experience designing, developing, and consuming APIs. Experience with microservices architecture and RESTful API design principles. Experience building data systems that ingest, model, and analyze the flow of data from online and offline transactions by building Data pipelines using Airflow or Jenkins jobs. Experience creating and maintaining data processing workflows with Jenkins or Airflow tools. Experience developing software features to streamline and scale batch jobs. Experience troubleshooting business and production issues by gathering information regarding issue, impact, criticality, and possible root cause. Experience with Apache Kafka and Event Driven Architecture for Event driven Data Processing. Experience with GIT or Gerrit version control systems. Experience with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools including Jenkins and Maven. Experience with web development technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Experience with React framework to build user interfaces. Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and debugging techniques to ensure the reliability and quality of AdTech systems. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $150,762/year to $234,000/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.   Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location) and Stock equity incentives.

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.