Software Engineer III

Position Summary...

Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities. Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

What you'll do...

About your team:

Data Science Foundation is first of a kind initiative within Walmart which provides fundamental data science solutions through algorithmic APIs that can be leveraged at Walmart scale. Our vision is to democratize data science solutions through reusable services, for everyone within Walmart.

DSF is planning to achieve this by

• Providing one place for all fundamental data-science algorithms.

• Empowering users to develop best-in-class solutions faster through robust re-usable APIs

Foundational work within DSF would comprise of defining a problem in an abstract manner and then designing the solution to be domain agnostic. In addition, the DSF would also productionize the APIs and tackle model management issues such as model serving, model monitoring/retraining, model lineage and life-cycle management.

Our team, which is part of Global Data Platform, is responsible for creating the Platform which is a one stop shop for all analytics for Walmart stores & Ecommerce – a Machine Learning Platform that provides end-to-end infrastructure for Data Scientists to build ML solutions and an Enterprise Analytics group that provides analytics for HR, Global Governance and Security. The team is responsible for time critical, business critical and highly reliable systems that influence almost every part of the Walmart business.

What You’ll do:

• Manage end-to-end engineering solutions for Machine Learning at scale.

• Integrate data science solutions into tangible products.

• Write efficient and quality code that can work @ Wal-Mart scale

• Productionize ML models – tackle all model management challenges.

• Parallelize algorithms/model training to make use of distributed infrastructure and reduce training time significantly.

Adopt Wal-Mart’s quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry:

• Mentor peers and analysts across the division in technology best practices

• Research, learn & adapt new technologies to solve problems & improve existing solutions

• Participate in events to build innovative solutions

• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide drive value from data at Walmart Scale

• Interact with data science groups across Walmart to understand their major engineering challenges, build and propose solution for them.

• Identify right open source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot and/or interacting with various open source forums

• Deploy and monitor products on Cloud platforms.

• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome product features to keep platform ahead of market scenarios.

• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

What you’ll bring

              You have a deep interest and passion for technology. You love writing and owning code and enjoy working with people who will keep challenging you at every stage. You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree with 3-5 yrs. of experience in Computer Science

• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, databases, distributed system etc.

• Experience in Python is mandatory. Experience in other programming languages such as Java, Scala will be an added advantage.

• Experience in Java, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Spark ML and distributed computing.

• Hands-on knowledge of docker container, container orchestration system like Kubernetes, docker swarm, marathon etc.

• Knowledge of machine learning life cycle, training and deployment of machine learning models.

• Knowledge of Jupyter, Zeppelin notebooks. 

• Experience in building scalable/highly available distributed systems in production.

• Experience on implementing CI/CD, Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system.

• Good Understanding of the machine learning flow like feature engineering, training, evaluate, deployment, scoring, monitoring, feedback and retrain process.

• Basic Understanding of GPU Computing and Tensor Flow.

• Basic Understanding of Deep Learning.

• Strong advocate for Engineering Best Practices.

• Strong Advocate for Open-Source Technologies.

• Should be a fast learner and quickly adapt to new technologies.

• Prefer individuals with High Ownership and commitment.

• Ability to work like a startup company.

• Ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner.

• A self-motivated learner and builder with strong customer focus and obsession with quality

About Global Tech.

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 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:

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, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 2years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Option 2: 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Certification in Security+, Network+, GISF, GSEC, CISSP, or CCSP, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related area

Primary Location...

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