Staff, Software Engineer (sre)

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Denver, CO

Staff Software Engineer (SRE) responsible for managing and improving enterprise cloud-based database platforms, focusing on consistency, efficiency, and operability through IaC, automation, and CI/CD pipelines. The role involves building tooling for database deployment and management at scale, automating maintenance, and ensuring reliability and availability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build the tooling foundation that will enable repeatable, low overhead creation and operation of databases, deployed and run at scale
  2. Design and implement an IaC-based approach for managing stateful infrastructure components
  3. Create and maintain pipelines that enable migration of infrastructure
  4. Build and rebuild cloud databases in a zero-touch, zero-downtime fashion
  5. Automate routine maintenance tasks

Skills

Required

  • Strong working experience as a DBA, DevOps engineer, SRE, or software engineer with expertise in data solutions
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tenets and practices
  • Experience with declarative definition of infrastructure resources through tools such as Terraform.
  • Automation of infrastructure deployment workflows using deployment pipelines built out on tools like GitHub Actions or Jenkins
  • Schema (DDL) deployment automation using tools such as Liquibase or Flyway
  • 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.
  • 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Nice to have

  • 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
  • Knowledge of accessibility best practices and implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.