Walmart

Principal Software Engineer – Tech

Walmart

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Bentonville • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $143,000 - $286,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNode.jsReactReact Native

About the role

  • Leads and directs in large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects.
  • Guides the work of 30+ engineers designing tools for international workforce management.
  • Champions EE/OE/SRE best-practices and accelerates key initiatives delivering critical path code.
  • Performs design, code reviews, and operational excellence to build for resilience and high availability.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams including business, product, data science, and other software engineering teams to draft, scope, design, develop, test, and deploy services and systems that efficiently meet business needs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • Proven experience (8+ years) as a Software Engineer, preferably with a focus on Javascript based systems including React, React Native, Node, etc.
  • Experience in CICD automation including Agile delivery, feature flags, and backwards compatibility.
  • Strong experience with performance profiling tools and techniques to identify bottlenecks in code and system components.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture and design principles.
  • Familiarity with multi-cloud environments and hands-on experience in optimizing applications for cloud deployment.
  • Ability to analyze and interpret performance metrics to make informed decisions on system optimizations.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and debug complex systems.
  • Certifications in relevant cloud platforms is a plus.
  • Openness to learning new technologies and adapting to evolving challenges.
Benefits
  • Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
  • Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
  • Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
  • Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
  • Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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Hard skills
JavascriptReactReact NativeNodeCICD automationAgile deliveryperformance profilingdistributed systems architecturecloud deployment optimizationsystem optimization
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingtroubleshootingadaptability
Certifications
cloud platform certifications