STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About our team - Data Ventures
 Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmart’s data by developing and productizing B2B data initiatives that empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business. As part of this transformation, we’re seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment.

What You'll Do

• Design and own core platform capabilities — plugin and extension systems, agent orchestration engines, semantic and data abstraction layers — enabling product teams to onboard new AI capabilities with minimal platform involvement

• Architect and implement multi-step, parallel, and cross-domain agentic workflows powered by large language models, ensuring correctness, reliability, and safe execution at every step

• Build and enforce governed tool execution and security boundaries — access controls, tenant isolation, scope enforcement — so that AI agents operate within declared, auditable constraints

• Define and evolve the platform's data and semantic layer, bridging heterogeneous sources (relational, vector, semantic-modelled, API) into a unified, agent-understandable representation shared across all products

• Establish and uphold non-functional requirements — latency SLAs, throughput targets, data isolation guarantees, and availability contracts — as first-class platform standards, not afterthoughts

• Own observability and explainability as platform primitives — audit pipelines, structured logging, response attribution, and governance metadata that make AI outputs trustworthy and debugable in production

• Define architectural dependency rules and enforce them through code, tests, and design reviews — preventing structural violations before they compound

• Partner across engineering, product, and data science teams to translate platform capabilities into reliable, well-documented contracts that internal teams can build against confidently

• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and build a culture of platform thinking — shared infrastructure, stable interfaces, and reusable patterns over per-product duplication

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful depth in platform, infrastructure, or foundational systems — not just application development

• Hands-on experience designing and shipping production LLM-based systems — agent orchestration, tool use, RAG pipelines, multi-step reasoning, or structured output generation

• Strong software engineering fundamentals — clean API design, distributed systems patterns, async execution, fault tolerance, and observability

• Experience designing extensible plugin or extension systems with stable, versioned contracts and well-defined conformance expectations

• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with the AI/ML ecosystem; comfort reasoning about latency, throughput, and cost tradeoffs in inference-heavy workloads

• Deep appreciation for architectural principles — separation of concerns, dependency inversion, layered design, and enforcement of contracts through code rather than convention

• Experience owning and operating multi-tenant systems with strict data isolation and access control requirements

Preferred

• Experience with LLM governance, AI safety frameworks, guardrails, or responsible AI patterns in production

• Background in semantic modelling, data mesh, or building canonical data layers consumed by downstream AI or analytics systems

• Prior work in a platform engineering role serving multiple product teams as internal customers

• Familiarity with agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangFuse, GoogleADK, CrewAI, or equivalent) and the tradeoffs of building on top of vs. owning the orchestration layer

• Experience defining and enforcing engineering standards across a team or organization

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people. 

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India