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We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer with hands-on experience in development of Zero Touch Networking Platform and Network automation. The ideal candidate will Drive technical direction and system design for the intent-based networking layer within Walmart’s Zero-Touch Networking stack. Build robust, scalable services—including configuration managers, orchestrators, workflow engines, and remediation pipelines. Develop clean, extensible APIs and microservices that power internal self-service capabilities. This role requires strong technical expertise in designing and building production-grade infrastructure automation platforms at scale, one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Python.
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer with hands-on experience in development of Zero Touch Networking Platform and Network automation. The ideal candidate will Drive technical direction and system design for the intent-based networking layer within Walmart’s Zero-Touch Networking stack. Build robust, scalable services—including configuration managers, orchestrators, workflow engines, and remediation pipelines. Develop clean, extensible APIs and microservices that power internal self-service capabilities. This role requires strong technical expertise in designing and building production-grade infrastructure automation platforms at scale, one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Python.
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About the team
The Critical Infrastructure Automation & Observability team is rethinking how Walmart operates and scales its infrastructure. We're building a platform that is intent-driven, resilient, and fully automated—empowering internal teams to manage and evolve infrastructure with confidence and precision.
**What You’ll Do **(3 to 5 brief pointers about the roles and responsibility)
Help Build the Infrastructure Platform That Powers the World's Largest Retailer
Walmart Global Tech is seeking a Software Engineer III to help lead the development of our Zero-Touch Networking platform—a foundational system that automates how Walmart manages its massive global infrastructure. If you're passionate about building highly available systems, infrastructure-as-code, and designing intelligent automation at scale, this is your opportunity to make an impact at the highest level.
Join a team of experts focused on eliminating manual toil, enabling self-service networking, and building intelligent systems that support over 10,000 locations worldwide.
What You'll Do
- Drive technical direction and system design for the intent-based networking layer within Walmart’s Zero-Touch Networking stack.
- Build robust, scalable services—including configuration managers, orchestrators, workflow engines, and remediation pipelines.
- Develop clean, extensible APIs and microservices that power internal self-service capabilities.
- Own platform reliability, ensuring observability, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis are built-in from day one.
- Collaborate across disciplines—network engineering, SRE, operations, product management—to align on priorities and deliver value quickly.
- Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, promoting collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in on-call rotations to support 24x7 operations with a strong focus on resilience and automation.
Why Walmart Global Tech
- Work on high-impact systems at global scale, powering both digital and physical operations.
- Solve real-world infrastructure challenges with cutting-edge automation and observability.
- Be part of a team where engineering ownership, innovation, and impact are core values.
- Grow your career while shaping the future of retail infrastructure.
Ready to build the systems behind one of the world’s most advanced retail networks? Apply today and make your mark with Walmart Global Tech.
**What You’ll bring **(3 to 5 brief pointers about the qualifications, exposures and experiences required for the role)
Proven experience designing and building production-grade infrastructure automation platforms at scale.
Deep technical expertise in:
- Intent-based networking, infrastructure-as-code, and network systems
- Go and Python for backend development
- Web frameworks such as Django
- Real-time data streaming with Kafka or NATS
- Databases like PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and Git-based workflows.
Familiarity with source-of-truth systems like NetBox.
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) is a strong plus.
A collaborative mindset, strong debugging skills, and a passion for systems that scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, performance, scalability, reliability, fault tolerance.
- Expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.
- Experience building service-oriented/microservices architectures, RESTful/graph APIs, and working with frameworks for high availability and throughput.
- Good working knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g., routing/switching, overlay/underlay networks, SDN/NFV, intent-based networking) and network automation.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management (Ansible, Terraform etc), CI/CD pipelines and monitoring/observability tooling.
- Experience mentoring and influencing other engineers, providing technical leadership, setting engineering best practices, and contributing to architectural direction.
- Strong communication skills (both technical and non-technical) — ability to interface with cross-functional teams (networking, SRE, security, devops, product).
- Desired: hands-on experience with zero-touch/zero-human-touch network provisioning frameworks (ZTP), intent-based network control, autonomous network operations.
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.
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 2 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 4 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, 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