Staff Software Engineer

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

17h • Onsite

About The Position

What you'll do... Position: Staff Software Engineer Job Location: 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Duties: Explore relevant products/solutions from an existing repertoire, that can address business/technical needs. Assess gaps between the customer/business expectations and the existing product/solutions. Classify the requirements into applicable types. Anticipate the solution risks/issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/application. Track and analyze defects for the component/module and carryout regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application. Conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics. Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis. Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible. Assist in design of solutions such that the processes/applications work in tandem for specific components/modules of a product. Evaluate trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assist in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed design using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules/components of a product. Select appropriate frameworks, platforms, and environments for software coding/configuration and scripting. Guide the team on coding patterns, languages and frameworks in line with evolving trends in the industry and drive scalability and security. Drive Implementation of telemetry features by determining data/metrics requirement within the domain. Support ad-hoc reviews of software code to ensure baseline mitigations for known risks. Create/configure minimalistic code for entire product/system and ensure the product is meeting business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs. Arrange project requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements. Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Testing or any other process across the domain. Translate customer requirements into test strategy. Select, introduce and implement various tools for testing. Identify scope and method of testing for each requirement. Ensure that the test cases cover all the test scenarios for the product/solution requirements. Drive execution of test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire product. Provide inputs to relevant stakeholders regarding schedule progress, health, issues/risks, and key dependencies. Provide inputs to relevant stakeholder for creation of project plans. Ensure adherence to the CICD process as per identified schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering (any) or related field and 6 years of post-bachelor’s progressively responsible experience in large scale enterprise software development environment; OR Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering (any) or related field and 3 years of experience in large scale enterprise software development environment.
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing data processing pipelines with Java.
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing data processing pipelines with Python.
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing data processing pipelines with Apache Spark.
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing data processing pipelines with Airflow.
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining RESTful APIs using Java and Spring.
• Experience designing and testing data models in RDBMS including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.
• Experience designing and testing data models in RDBMS including Oracle DB.
• Experience working with cloud platforms.
• Experience writing complex and highly optimized queries across large datasets.
• Experience analyzing and interpreting data to provide insights and recommendations.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and implementing high performance data retrieval solutions using products like Elastic Search.
• Experience designing and implementing high performance data retrieval solutions using products like Apache Solr.
• Experience with CI/CD solutions using Jenkins and testing frameworks like Junit.
• Experience monitoring and alerting solutions, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
• Experience monitoring and alerting solutions, including tools such as Dynatrace.
• Experience working with real-time stream processing using Apache Storm.
• Experience working with batch processing using Spring Batch.
• Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Responsibilities

• Explore relevant products/solutions from an existing repertoire, that can address business/technical needs.
• Assess gaps between the customer/business expectations and the existing product/solutions.
• Classify the requirements into applicable types.
• Anticipate the solution risks/issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps.
• Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/application.
• Track and analyze defects for the component/module and carryout regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes.
• Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects.
• Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application.
• Conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics.
• Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) engineering activities.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis.
• Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible.
• Assist in design of solutions such that the processes/applications work in tandem for specific components/modules of a product.
• Evaluate trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements.
• Assist in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed design using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules/components of a product.
• Select appropriate frameworks, platforms, and environments for software coding/configuration and scripting.
• Guide the team on coding patterns, languages and frameworks in line with evolving trends in the industry and drive scalability and security.
• Drive Implementation of telemetry features by determining data/metrics requirement within the domain.
• Support ad-hoc reviews of software code to ensure baseline mitigations for known risks.
• Create/configure minimalistic code for entire product/system and ensure the product is meeting business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs.
• Arrange project requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements.
• Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Testing or any other process across the domain.
• Translate customer requirements into test strategy.
• Select, introduce and implement various tools for testing.
• Identify scope and method of testing for each requirement.
• Ensure that the test cases cover all the test scenarios for the product/solution requirements.
• Drive execution of test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire product.
• Provide inputs to relevant stakeholders regarding schedule progress, health, issues/risks, and key dependencies.
• Provide inputs to relevant stakeholder for creation of project plans.
• Ensure adherence to the CICD process as per identified schedule.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level