(USA) Senior, Software Engineer

Are you passionate about pioneering cutting-edge technology that can revolutionize the world of associate (employee) experiences? Do you dream of playing a technical role that will shape the future of Global People Systems?  If you possess exceptional technical expertise, you may be interested in this opportunity.  

Join our dynamic and forward-thinking People Technology engineering organization, where you’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation, spearheading transformative projects and foundational improvements. We are seeking a sharp technical leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between business requests and architecting the technical landscape to deliver. Your projects will have tremendous impact, be scalable, and at the center of modernization efforts in Walmart’s People Technology organization. 

About Team:
The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you'll do:

• Design, write and build tools to improve the reliability, latency, availability, and scalability of Walmart Enterprise products.

  • Engender reliability and availability starting with metrics and measurements.

  • Enable scaling by providing tools, developing training and/or augmenting processes.

  • Build tools/automate to prevent re-occurrence of problem to mission critical products/services.

• Augment existing instrumentation to build a cohesive picture of the characteristics of our systems with special attention to points of failure.

• Build and drive the automation systems that maintain system health

• Eliminate Single Point of failure and test disaster recovery and HA regularly.

• Participate in capacity planning, demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.

• Develop a deep understanding of the numerous services and applications that come together to deliver Walmart Enterprise products.

• Design new tools to monitor and smart alerts that help discover failures/issues in a timely fashion and work with engineers to identify root cause and fix issues.

• Influence, design and create new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems.

• Root-cause analysis complex problems involving multiple parties, networks, hardware, and software that relate to scaling and performance.

• Secure the system from issues, be they real, perceived, or notional.

• High focus on collecting and inferring metric documentation to be used by others to build and maintain systems.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline

• 5+ years of hands-on Development experience with more than one programming language (Go, Python Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, JavaScript, preferred).

• Experience with Azure, GCP, or private cloud (OpenStack); namely choosing platform components and assembling application and runtime architecture.

• Experience with the Serverless framework and serverless architecture.

• Experience with microservices architectures and constituent technologies.

• Experience with containerization and container platforms. (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Docker EE, OpenShift, Mesosphere).

• Experience designing  & developing APIs and implementing GraphQL APIs and/or REST APIs

• Excellent end to end technical understanding of core infrastructure, cloud services, platforms, and micro-services.

• Scripting and Development responsibilities

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Saltstack, Chef and Puppet

• Familiar with log centric tooling. Produce time series data and reusable dashboards for use both during and post event.

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 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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.