Senior, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the Team:

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Operations, Analytics and Research (OAR) at Walmart, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable operational solutions that enhance the reliability and efficiency of Walmart's omnichannel ecosystem. We are seeking engineers with expertise in AI-driven solutions, intelligent automation, operational analytics, and workflow optimization, combined with strong software engineering skills and a passion for solving complex operational challenges. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop resilient, scalable, and maintainable platforms that automate operational processes, improve observability, accelerate issue resolution, and enable data-driven decision-making across multiple fulfillment and commerce platforms.

What you’ll do

• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving distributed systems.
• Develop reusable platform components, frameworks, and APIs to improve engineering productivity across teams.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, customer teams, and partner engineering organizations to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Drive architecture, design, implementation, and operational readiness of platform capabilities from concept to production.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency through performance optimizations and architectural enhancements.
• Drive engineering best practices around testing, automation, deployment, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Own services running in production, including on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Build Agentic AI services (planning, tool usage, retrieval, and feedback loops) and integrate them with internal systems and APIs.

What you’ll bring

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong programming experience in Java, Python.
• Strong foundation in data structures, concurrency, and system design.
• Experience with distributed stream processing frameworks such as Kafka and Flink.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts with experience designing cloud-native microservices and REST APIs.
• Production experience building AI-powered applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangGraph-style planners, tool-use patterns, retrieval, and memory components),  Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and workflow orchestration.
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Milvus, pgvector) and feature stores.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms.
• Experience building highly available production systems with strong observability using metrics, dashboards, logging, and alerting.
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills for distributed applications.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple engineering organizations and customer teams.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset with experience driving projects independently from design through production rollout.

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.

Flexible, hybrid 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/Chennai] 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.

Option 1: Bachelor'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.
Option 2: 5 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, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 1 year’s experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects, 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.

Information Technology - CISCO Certification - Certification

Primary Location...

Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India