Principal Software Engineer
Walmart
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Staff Software Engineer
Walmart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CassandraCloudDistributed SystemsGraphQLHadoopHibernateJ2EEJavaJavaScriptKafkaNode.jsReactReact NativeReduxSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLWebpack
About the role
- Lead small teams of engineers—including offshore associates—in delivering complex engineering projects.
- Provide technical direction, architectural guidance, and solution reviews; identify and implement scalable and maintainable system designs; and conduct comprehensive design and code reviews.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot production issues through root cause analysis, and support innovation by defining technical strategies and best practices.
- Partner with product management, UX, and business stakeholders to drive discovery, solution validation, and delivery of high-impact projects across the organization.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to teams of engineers across geographies.
- Review and approve technical solutions, code changes, and architectural patterns.
- Troubleshoot critical production and business issues; lead root cause analysis and resolution efforts.
- Drive high-level design in partnership with Product, UX, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
- Define and implement innovation strategies, engineering best practices, and scalable processes.
- Translate business and functional requirements into technical solutions for complex projects.
- Write and review code, conduct unit testing, and lead defect triage and resolution.
- Communicate project status, risks, and technical decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
- Ensure timely delivery of project milestones and effective hand-offs between teams.
- Guide discovery, scoping, and planning for long-term initiatives; influence decision-making at all levels.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or master’s Degree with 10+ years of experience in Computer Science or related field.
- Deep knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture and experience implementing RESTFUL Web Services.
- Strong in Java programming and JVM internals (concurrency, multi-threading).
- Solid design and coding skills in Java and/or Spring framework.
- Extensive hands-on experience building services using these technologies (Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JAX).
- Strong computer science knowledge in algorithms, data structures, database concepts and SQL technologies.
- Extensive hands-on experience with storage technologies such as Cosmos DB, Elastic Search, Hive, Cassandra, Hadoop and Kafka are good to have.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Cloud Development experience.
- Good to have experience in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, AJAX, GraphQL, React Native, React, Redux, Webpack and Node.
- Experience in building scalable/highly available distributed systems in production.
- Understanding of stream processing with knowledge on Kafka.
- Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD, Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system.
- Very good expertise in production support related activities (issue identification, resolution).
- Experience in AI tools to improve the developer Productivity in creating applications.
- Experience in AI, Gen AI, Agentic AI, LLM’s, creating chatbots etc.,
Benefits
- Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
- Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaJVM internalsRESTful Web ServicesSpring frameworkJ2EESpring BootHibernateSQLCloud DevelopmentAI tools
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingproject managementinnovationroot cause analysisdecision-makingstakeholder engagement
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree
