(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Customer Transaction Data Pipeline is a group within the Intelligent Store Tech (IST) org within Walmart. This hands-on role requires exceptional coding skills, a passion for technology and engineering excellence, and the ability to guide and mentor multiple teams of engineers. You will play a pivotal role in defining and maintaining our technical architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals and scalability requirements. 

About Team:

The Data Pipeline group focuses on building products that enable our business to understand the effectiveness of point-of-sale and make key business decisions. We use open-source tech to build software that stands on top of a foundational Platform architecture which is being built from the ground up. Your team will leverage Java, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Kafka, Google Cloud, BigQuery, Looker, and other such tools/frameworks.

What you’ll do:

• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in solution design, architecture and development.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of our technical architecture, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements.  
• Architect complex software systems, ensuring performance, security, and scalability needs are met.  
• Guide engineers to adopt engineering best practices, conduct/lead design & code reviews, and ensure alignment with the IST Architecture vision.
• Foster a culture of learning and innovation through hands-on technical guidance and mentorship.
• Uphold high standards in quality and operational excellence.
• Develop comprehensive technical documentation and presentations to clearly communicate architectural decisions and design options. 
• Work closely with Program, Product, Business, and Design partners to plan work (by sprint and by quarter) and ensuring that engineering tech priorities are also included.
• Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of relevant experience in software development and solution architecture focusing on building large scale complex distributed systems.
• Must have experience leading teams in a solution architect role building complex microservices and frontends.
• Experience working with multiple tech stack –Java, Looker, Google Cloud, BigQuery, k8s, Spring framework, API development, etc.
• Experience with monitoring tech – Splunk, Prometheus, APM, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Passion for staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies, with a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

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 r