(usa) Senior, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Dallas, TX

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable software and data engineering solutions using Python and Microsoft Azure. The role involves developing cloud-native applications, data-driven systems, and supporting event-based and IoT-centric architectures, with a focus on data engineering pipelines and database management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable software solutions using Python and related frameworks.
  2. Develop cloud-native applications and services on Microsoft Azure
  3. Design and integrate solutions using event-driven architectures, messaging, and streaming platforms
  4. Work with relational and NoSQL databases, ensuring performance, reliability, and data integrity
  5. Build and optimize data engineering pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and processing of large-scale data

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architectures with programming skills in Python
  • Hands-on experience building applications with Django and/or FAST API
  • Hands-on experience building and operating solutions on Microsoft Azure
  • Demonstratable experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling
  • Strong experience with data engineering pipelines, including batch and streaming workloads
  • Proven experience building and maintaining data engineering pipelines
  • Experience working with Azure Synapse Analytics, including data integration, analytics, and large-scale query workloads
  • Experience with Azure data and analytics services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, or equivalent services
  • Strong understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and system design
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and agile development practices
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Nice to have

  • Experience in Kotlin language for backend development.
  • Experience with Azure IoT Hub, Azure Event Hub, or similar event-streaming platforms
  • Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow on Azure (e.g., Azure-hosted Airflow, orchestration of data workflows)
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of big data or analytics platforms
  • Experience building distributed systems at scale

What the JD emphasized

  • Python
  • Microsoft Azure
  • data engineering pipelines
  • event-driven architectures