Staff, Software Engineer, Puppet Forward Design

Walmart•Sunnyvale, CA

16d

About The Position

What you'll do... We are looking for a Puppet Forward Design Software engineer focusing building services to Puppet Infrastructure whilst maintain and operate them at scale leveraging AI providing services to enhance and customer experience in a very large and complex environment. Job Description Automate deployments: Design and implement automated deployment pipelines for code and configuration changes in the Puppet ecosystem. Design and architecture : Lead the design and architecture of agentic workflows and frameworks to automate complex, multi-step business processes used by our customers for Puppet focused workstreams or within the team for Puppet administration. Development and Integration : Develop integrations with other systems, APIs, and data sources to enable agents to perform tasks and access information from the Puppet data. This includes creating and maintain Puppet manifests, modules, and files. Performance and reliability : Implement RAG, memory management, and other techniques to ensure agents are accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Observability : Develop actional insights to provide visibility into system performance and service SLAs. Mentorship : Mentor and guide other engineers on best practices, design patterns, and agentic workflow development. Best practices : Establish and maintain best practices for the end-to-end agentic development lifecycle, including testing, automation, monitoring, and logging. Research : Stay current with new AI/ML technologies and techniques and apply to solve problems and improve agent capabilities in the Puppet Ecosystem at scale.

Requirements

Deep Puppet expertise: Extensive hands-on experience using Puppet Enterprise or open-source Puppet in a production environment. Experience with Puppet upgrades and migrations is also often required.
Broad toolchain experience: Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), and cloud-native deployment for AI-driven services. powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
AI/ML knowledge : Expertise in areas such as prompt engineering, RAG, and other methods for enhancing agent performance. Strong expertise in agentic AI orchestration frameworks and familiarity with planner-executor and multi-agent architectures. Proven experience designing and deploying LLM-powered workflows or AI agents in production environments.
Day 2 operation insight: Familiarity with responsible AI principles (bias mitigation, safety, transparency) and monitoring tools for AI/agentic workflows. Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic)
Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills for complex workflows and distributed agents.
Leadership : Proven experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring junior engineers
Strong soft skills : Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential for working with cross-functional teams and providing technical guidance.
Mentor engineering teams in agentic workflow design patterns and share expertise in LLM orchestration at scale.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering

Responsibilities

Automate deployments: Design and implement automated deployment pipelines for code and configuration changes in the Puppet ecosystem.
Design and architecture : Lead the design and architecture of agentic workflows and frameworks to automate complex, multi-step business processes used by our customers for Puppet focused workstreams or within the team for Puppet administration.
Development and Integration : Develop integrations with other systems, APIs, and data sources to enable agents to perform tasks and access information from the Puppet data. This includes creating and maintain Puppet manifests, modules, and files.
Performance and reliability : Implement RAG, memory management, and other techniques to ensure agents are accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.
Observability : Develop actional insights to provide visibility into system performance and service SLAs.
Mentorship : Mentor and guide other engineers on best practices, design patterns, and agentic workflow development.
Best practices : Establish and maintain best practices for the end-to-end agentic development lifecycle, including testing, automation, monitoring, and logging.
Research : Stay current with new AI/ML technologies and techniques and apply to solve problems and improve agent capabilities in the Puppet Ecosystem at scale.

Benefits

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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, 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. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
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.
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.
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock