(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Wal-Mart•Sunnyvale, CA

48d•Onsite

About The Position

Join a dynamic engineering team focused on enhancing the Seller Experience and driving the growth of Walmart's Marketplace and Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS). As part of Walmart e Commerce, you'll play a key role in reshaping the future of shopping by developing innovative solutions that impact millions of shoppers. Walmart Marketplace is a community of trusted sellers offering high-quality products and exceptional customer service which is an essential component of Walmart's growth strategy. Through WFS, sellers can leverage Walmart's advanced fulfillment infrastructure to streamline operations and improve delivery to customers. In this fast-paced, innovation-driven environment, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions that push the boundaries of e Commerce and fulfillment, driving Walmart's digital growth. Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few. Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and maintain the next-generation, multi-market technology platform for Marketplace and WFS on a global scale. Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives. Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team. Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience. Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency. This role requires a visionary leader who can balance technical expertise with strategic business acumen, and who is passionate about shaping the future of Walmarts global eCommerce and fulfillment technologies.

Requirements

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
12 years of object-oriented programming experience in Java, Spring boot, Microservices, React, NestJS, Node
Experience working on Azure SQL, Cosmos, Blob Storage, GCS, Hive, Apache Spark and Airflow
Champion the use of AI copilots and agent-based automation in team workflows, identifying opportunities to improve engineering velocity and reduce manual overhead.
Good understanding of Data Structures
8+ years of experience in systems design, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Have programming experience preferably in the Finance/ retail / ecommerce industry.
Expertise in cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS
Expertise working in Agile Methodology
Hands on experience using CI/CD, tools for logging and metrics
A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment
Expertise with being a core contributor to a software project: understanding domain and business requirements, being responsible for critical parts of the application
Expertise working with logging and application monitoring stack: Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk etc.
Good communication skills, working in multi-team project
A constant desire to improve, learn more, and take things to the next level, and a passion for adopting the latest features in the technologies that we leverage
Experience in tools to improve the developer productivity in creating applications
Experience in AI, Gen AI, LLM's, creating chatbots, etc.

Nice To Haves

Python knowledge would be an added advantage

Responsibilities

Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and maintain the next-generation, multi-market technology platform for Marketplace and WFS on a global scale.
Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.

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.
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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.
Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates.
Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: Stock