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 Staff 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:
- Understand business problems related to secrets management and propose robust, scalable technological solutions.
- Architect, design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade secrets management platforms (Vault, Akeyless, etc.) at scale, ensuring security, reliability, and compliance.
- Design, develop, and deploy highly available and scalable systems with a focus on cloud-native and Kubernetes-based solutions for secrets lifecycle automation (onboarding, policy management, auditing, monitoring).
- Develop and optimize platform components and automation tools using Golang, Kubernetes APIs, and other cloud-native technologies, ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Architect and implement microservices-based solutions using service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles, with a focus on secure secret delivery and management.
- Deploy and manage secrets management solutions on Azure and other cloud platforms, leveraging Kubernetes and related technologies.
- Drive best practices in CI/CD, DevOps, and operational excellence for seamless deployments and system reliability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with security, platform, and application teams to define system architecture, integration strategies, and development roadmaps.
- Provide technical leadership, making design trade-offs to balance long-term scalability with short-term execution needs.
- Lead incident reviews, root cause analysis, and postmortems for critical platform issues, ensuring learnings are translated into long-term improvements.
- Mentor and guide engineers within the team, fostering technical growth and a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
- Stay current with industry trends in secrets management, cloud security, and Kubernetes, and proactively introduce new technologies and approaches where appropriate.
What You’ll bring:
- 10+ years of experience in the design and development of highly scalable, secure platform solutions in product-based companies or R&D divisions.
- Strong computer systems fundamentals, data structures/algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
- Deep programming expertise in Golang (preferred), with additional experience in Java, Python, or similar languages a plus.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes internals, APIs, operator patterns, and cloud-native development.
- Experience architecting and building distributed systems, with a focus on security, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Hands-on experience with secrets management platforms (Vault, Akeyless, or equivalents) and a solid understanding of security best practices.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm), and certificate lifecycle management (cert-manager, Venafi, etc.).
- Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL and database technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.) is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team initiatives, influence stakeholders, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a passion for mentoring and developing others.
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.) and a strong commitment to operational excellence.
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 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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Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area
Primary Location...
Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India