(USA)Principal Software Engineer - Tech

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Workforce Management team, you will guide the work of 30+ engineers designing the tools that manage and empower our international workforce. Championing EE/OE/SRE best-practices, you will accelerate several key initiatives delivering critical path code while guiding teams to scale better practices.

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from inception to launch of multiple complex and ambiguous projects with strong operational performance.
• Extensive understanding of Kubernetes, cloud platforms (GCP, Azure), complex data flows (Kafka, BigQuery, AzureSQL, Airflow, GCP Compute), event-driven architecture, and best practices around multithreading, networking, and performance tuning.
• Effective problem-solving skills, ability to make design tradeoffs, balancing the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
• At least 12+ years of relevant industry experience in building highly available systems.
• Experience automating and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines with shift-left / shift-right quality gates
• Passion for working from first principles, guiding design, and performance requirements to better serve customers, improve quality and lower the support and maintenance burden. Help drive simplicity by designing for reuse and partnering across Walmart Global Tech to accelerate platform capabilities
• Experience working with Java, SpringBoot, and NodeJS frameworks (knowledge of front-end frameworks is a plus - TypeScript, ReactNative, ReactJS)
• Strong business partnership; anticipating business needs; determining actions that will accelerate the business goals; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, including consensus building, conflict resolution, influence, and persuasion skills.

• Serve as a springboard for other engineers, mentoring, encouraging curiosity, and accelerating technical growth / career advancement.

What you'll do:

• Lead your team in performing design, code reviews, operational excellence - building for resilience, high availability, scalable and performance.
• Create/Code/Design large, complex workforce management applications, services, and systems that are used across Walmart banners.
• Lead in coding / design decisions across various tech stack layers, from the front-end to back-end services and the data platform.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including business, product, data science, and other software engineering teams to understand the business problem and draft, scope, design, develop, test, and deploy services and systems that efficiently meet those needs.

Ready to rise above group think and make a significant impact? Join us and be part of a team that's driving innovation and redefining the tools that manage our workforce.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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.
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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .

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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.
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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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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart .

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Sunnyvale, California US-04397:The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
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Bentonville, Arkansas US-10735:The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00
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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
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- Stock
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...

2501 Se J St, Ste A, Bentonville, AR 72716-3724, United States of America