Posted:
9/24/2024, 9:08:52 AM
Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ Sunnyvale, California, United States
Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Software Engineering
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
What you'll do...
Here at Walmart, we’re driven by an intellectual curiosity that keeps us on the cutting-edge of user design and a seamless customer experience. We’re intrigued by the opportunity to engineer the most optimal approach that drives conversions and generates consumer loyalty across every touchpoint of the digital journey.
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll spend your days translating requirements into solutions, writing code, collaborating with cross-functional teams and providing us with the insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. You’ll oversee small project teams consisting of other engineers who will look to you as a trusted advisor, a subject matter expert who provides guidance and the right tools to get the job done.
Now, imagine doing all the above for the world’s largest retailer. That’s the Walmart experience. Intrigued?
Responsibilities:
As a Staff Engineer, you will set the tone of engineering-excellence and drive processes and standards within the team. You will lead the design of complex software changes and take on the development of exciting new features. In addition, you will partner with your senior and junior teammates throughout the software development lifecycle to cultivate a reciprocal learning environment from development to debugging and operational excellence.
If you have a passion for high performance software engineering, and the ability to inspire teams to produce high quality code and features, let’s talk!
Provide technical leadership and use engineering best practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide projects.
Demonstrate craftsmanship and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
Investigate and build proof-of-concept prototypes utilizing new technologies and drive their adoption within the mainstream product.
Work with Walmart’s Platform community to drive improvement to the overall foundation on which Walmart.com stands.
Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, product quality and efficiency.
Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development, product and business teams.
Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments, ensuring that these environments are setup with the standard automated build and releases processes & deliver with quality, reliability.
Build, leverage and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
Monitor the health of web pages, work cross-functionally with partner teams such as Site Ops, Network, Storage, Systems, Monitoring & Application team.
Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability.
Requirements:
BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent.
7+ years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive backend applications.
2+ years of Experience with Java/C++ preferably reactive java and their ecosystems.
Proven ability in building large scale backend applications
Experience operating software running on a containerized platform (Docker, Kubernetes, etc..)
Experience in continuous integration and delivery.
Experience with unit testing and functional automation frameworks
Experience with engineering best practices, including use of design patterns, and code reviews.
Ability to create prototypes from ideas and mockups from wire frames.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively in both independent and team environments.
Good understanding of version control systems, preferably GIT.
Experience with Agile methodology is a plus.
About The Team
The Item Read Orchestrator team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our dynamic and talented group. You'll collaborate with passionate associates to deliver a top-tier site experience that scales to handle millions of queries per second across millions of products. As a team, we innovate and build features on technologies such as Java, reactive programming, Kafka, Cassandra, caching, Resilience4J, and Kubernetes. Our focus is on delivering high-throughput, low-latency systems where every millisecond matters.
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.
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.
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.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
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.
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.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
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 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.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 or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineeringWebsite: http://www.walmart.com/
Headquarter Location: Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1962
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: E-Commerce ⋅ Grocery ⋅ Retail ⋅ Retail Technology ⋅ Shopping