
Principal Software Engineer – Traffic Foundation
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Involved in planning of system, development, and deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards
- Drives technical vision and influences product roadmap and vision
- Implement large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects
- Leads the discovery phase of large projects to develop high level design
- Supervise the work of cross-functional groups of engineers, including offshore associates
- Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
- Supports business objectives and ensures the business needs are being met
- Develops Innovation strategies, processes, and best practices by leading internal technical teams; partnering with cross-functional teams across the business; developing assessments of key opportunities; documenting project scopes; developing long-range plans and project timelines; communicating with and influencing decision-makers and executives within the organization; and resolving technology differences across teams through informed discussions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- Experience building Layer 4 and 7 orchestration/routing/load balancing systems
- Managed systems with >1K servers
- Built high-performance HTTP proxies and caches
- Experience with cloud (Azure/Go preferred)
- DevOps experience
- Clear understanding of TCP/HTTP request/response protocols/lifecycle
- 4+ Experience in a language such as Go/C/C++/Java
- Ability to interact effectively with a variety of business and technical stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing technical documentation.
Benefits
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Multiple health plans
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Company-paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringLayer 4 orchestrationLayer 7 routingload balancing systemshigh-performance HTTP proxiescachescloud (Azure, Go)DevOpsTCP protocolsHTTP request/response protocols
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluencingproblem-solvingproject managementtechnical documentationstakeholder interactioninnovation strategy developmentcross-functional team supervision