
Principal Software Engineer
Walmart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Hoboken • California • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $132,000 - $264,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead platform engineering efforts by delivering scalable infrastructure, reusable tooling, and AI/ML frameworks aligned with strategic roadmaps.
- Drive full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and real-time data processing.
- Architect and integrate intelligent AI-enhanced applications using cloud-native principles and model-driven design.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, influencing architectural standards and promoting engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and success metrics, ensuring solutions meet quality and business goals.
- Foster continuous improvement by identifying opportunities, adapting to change, and sharing knowledge across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area, OR
- 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- Extensive experience in platform engineering leadership, delivering scalable, cloud-native architectures and reusable tooling.
- Proven expertise in designing and implementing distributed systems optimized for real-time data processing and AI/ML integration.
- Strong proficiency in software development lifecycle management, including coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, and observability.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on operational metrics and customer-centric outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to apply model-driven design and leverage AI agents for intelligent software solutions.
- Skilled in technical mentorship, architectural decision-making, and cross-team collaboration.
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
platform engineeringcloud-native architectureAI/ML frameworksreal-time data processingdistributed systemsmodel-driven designCI/CD deploymentobservabilitysoftware development lifecyclereusable tooling
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipproblem-solvingcollaborationinfluencing architectural standardscontinuous improvementadaptabilitycustomer-centric focusknowledge sharingoperational metrics
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in computer engineeringBachelor's degree in computer information systemsBachelor's degree in software engineering