- Location
- IN KA BANGALORE Home Office PTPP1, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Lead
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Workday
Description
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Job Description Summary:
Principal, Software Engineer leads platform engineering initiatives by delivering scalable infrastructure, reusable tooling, and advanced AI/ML frameworks aligned with strategic roadmaps. This role oversees the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance through cloud-native architectures. The position requires driving technical excellence, mentoring engineers, and fostering innovation while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business needs into actionable solutions. The role demands sound technical judgment, adaptability to change, and a commitment to continuous improvement to support Walmart’s evolving technology landscape.
About Team:
The Marketplace Seller On-boarding, Acquisition, and Assortment-Growth team manages the full lifecycle of new third-party seller integration on Walmart’s global e-commerce platform. This team builds and operates scalable, cloud-native systems that support seller verification, account setup, and product listing across multiple markets. Utilizing modern Java technologies, event streaming, and Azure cloud services, the team drives platform reliability and engineering excellence. Focused on enabling sellers to maximize their reach, the team plays a key role in Walmart’s global growth strategy by delivering robust, distributed solutions at scale.
What you'll do:
- Lead platform engineering efforts to deliver 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 intelligent software systems integrating AI agents and advanced technologies to serve millions of users.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams, promoting standardization and innovation.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and measurable success metrics.
- Own technical deliverables, ensuring quality, reliability, and alignment with business objectives.
- Foster continuous improvement by evaluating processes, tools, and solutions to enhance performance and outcomes.
What you'll bring:
- Deep Java and distributed systems expertise – 12+ years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Java (8/11/17+), Spring Boot, microservices architecture, REST and gRPC APIs.
- Eventdriven and streaming systems experience – Handson experience building production systems with Apache Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms;
- Cloudnative and Azure platform expertise – Experience designing and operating services on Kubernetes-based platforms (WCNP/Azure AKS or equivalent); hands-on exposure to Azure cloud services including Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Monitor;
- Ecommerce domain knowledge – Experience in customer facing, marketplace platforms; ability to ramp on complex business domains &translate them to technical designs
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.
Option 1: 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.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.