Position Summary...
As an (IND) Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving technical excellence across multiple teams. This role involves architecting distributed systems, integrating AI/ML solutions, and overseeing the full software development lifecycle to support long-term platform evolution. You will provide strategic technical guidance, foster innovation, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate complex business needs into effective solutions. Your leadership will ensure high-quality, reliable software that serves millions, while promoting continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals.
What you'll do...
About the team:
The Control Tower team delivers an advanced Agentic AI-based platform providing comprehensive insights into anomalies across the SAMS supply chain. This team develops scalable, cloud-native solutions that enable proactive alerting, detailed analysis, and actionable recommendations to address supply chain disruptions. By integrating cutting-edge technologies such as Java, Spring Framework, and distributed systems, the team drives operational efficiency and resilience. Members collaborate across functions to design and maintain robust architectures, ensuring high availability and real-time data processing. The team fosters continuous innovation and technical excellence to support Walmart’s strategic goals and evolving business needs.
What you'll do:
- Lead platform engineering efforts by delivering scalable infrastructure, reusable tooling, and advanced ML frameworks aligned with strategic roadmaps.
- Drive full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high-quality coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance of distributed systems.
- Architect intelligent AI-enhanced applications integrating multi-step reasoning and tool-augmented tasks using modern programming languages and frameworks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, influencing architectural decisions and promoting engineering excellence and innovation.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and measurable success metrics.
- Ensure technical ownership by delivering reliable, maintainable solutions that meet business objectives and quality standards.
What you'll bring:
- Extensive experience in software engineering with strong proficiency in Java, Spring Framework, and distributed system design.
- Proven ability to architect scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native platforms and reusable tooling supporting AI/ML integration.
- Expertise in driving full software development lifecycle including CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
- Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions to promote maintainability and interoperability.
- Strong skills in data engineering, NoSQL databases, and real-time data processing frameworks such as Spark.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to stakeholders.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and delivering high-quality, customer-focused solutions aligned with business goals.
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.
Work Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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.
Belonging
We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.
At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people
Minimum Qualifications...
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Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
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Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India