Principal Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Principal Software Engineer role at Walmart focused on leading the design, development, and launch of large, high-impact applications, services, and systems within Enterprise Business Services. Requires extensive experience in building highly available and scalable distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership and complex project delivery. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, acting as a role model for quality and technical excellence, and developing subject matter expertise in the payroll space.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the design, development and launch of large high impact applications, services and systems.
  2. Collaborate with cross functional teams including business, product and other software engineers to understand the business problem, review business requirements, draft technical requirements, scope, design, develop, test, and deploy services and systems.
  3. Be the role model and exemplary practitioner in the team, and establish mechanisms (design reviews, code reviews, OE reviews, root cause analysis, etc.) to ensure high quality, high availability, scalable and performant systems are delivered.
  4. Advocate the use of latest technology and system integration patterns, cutting across team boundaries.
  5. Develop subject matter expertise in payroll space and be the voice of the team in technical and business forums.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of relevant industry experience in building highly available systems
  • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from inception to launch of multiple complex and ambiguous projects
  • Effective problem-solving skills
  • Ability to make design tradeoffs
  • Experience in multiple stack technologies React, IOS, Android, Node.js, Java
  • Proficiency in API development, Node.js, GQL
  • Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
  • Expertise in service-oriented architecture
  • Expertise with Relational and/or NoSQL Databases
  • Expertise with Cloud Services
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Experience with Operational Excellence best practices
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills
  • Consensus building
  • Conflict resolution
  • Influence and persuasion skills
  • Mentoring/coaching junior engineers

Nice to have

  • Ideally 10+ years of relevant experience in software development, focusing on building large scale distributed systems.

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 10+ years of relevant industry experience in building highly available systems.
  • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from inception to launch of multiple complex and ambiguous projects.