Position Summary...
Join the team at the forefront of transforming Secrets Management at Walmart. The Secrets team is responsible for building and managing platform solutions that empower Walmart’s applications and workloads with secure, unified, and compliant Vault products. Our mission is to simplify access to sensitive information, automate protection, and enable rapid, safe response to security events—eliminating complexity and strengthening our security posture across the enterprise. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native secrets management solutions that support Walmart’s vast technology ecosystem and drive innovation in how secrets are managed at scale. If you are passionate about security, automation, and building robust platform services, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey
What you'll do...
About the team
The Secrets team is a specialized platform engineering group at Walmart focused on building, operating, and evolving enterprise-grade secrets management solutions. We design and manage Vault products that securely store and deliver sensitive information—such as passwords, API keys, and certificates—to applications and services across Walmart’s global technology landscape. Our team collaborates closely with security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure seamless integration, automation, and compliance, while driving innovation in how secrets are managed at scale. We are passionate about delivering secure, reliable, and developer-friendly solutions that empower teams to move faster and safer.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain tools, services, and automation that simplify operations for secrets management platforms (Vault, Akeyless, etc.)
- Build Kubernetes-native solutions and operators to automate lifecycle tasks such as onboarding, policy management, auditing and monitoring.
- Partner with security, platform and application teams to ensure secret solutions are scalable, resilient, and easy to adopt.
- Improve platform reliability by developing automated health checks, self-healing scripts and operational tooling.
- Develop dashboards, metrics, and alerting for observability of secrets platform health and usage.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code primarily in Golang, leveraging Kubernetes APIs and other cloud-native components.
What You’ll bring:
- B.Tech / B.E. / M.Tech / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline.
- 5+ years of software development experience with a focus on automation and platform engineering.
- Strong coding skills in Golang
- Solid understanding of API development (REST and gRPC), with experience building APIs that integrate with MCP.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes internals, APIs, and operator patterns.
- Experience working with secret management platforms (Vault, Akeyless, or equivalents) is a strong plus.
- Good understanding of distributed systems, service reliability, and automation best practices.
- Knowledge of cloud environments (Azure, GCP or AWS) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, etc.) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm).
- Familiarity with certificate lifecycle management (cert-manager, Venafi integrations, ingress certificates, or custom operators)
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
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.
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 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
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Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 1 year’s experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects, 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.
Information Technology - CISCO Certification - Certification
Primary Location...
Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India