(USA) Principal, Software Engineer - WFS International Technology

Position Summary...

Join a dynamic engineering team focused on enhancing the seller experience and driving the growth of Walmart's Marketplace and Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS). As part of Walmart eCommerce, you'll play a key role in reshaping the future of shopping by developing innovative solutions that impact millions of shoppers. Walmart Marketplace is a community of trusted sellers offering high-quality products and exceptional customer service—an essential component of Walmart's growth strategy. Through WFS, sellers can leverage Walmart's advanced fulfillment infrastructure to streamline operations and improve delivery to customers. In this fast-paced, innovation-driven environment, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions that push the boundaries of eCommerce and fulfillment, driving Walmart's digital growth.
About the Team:
Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few.

What you'll do...

What you'll do:

• Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and maintain the next-generation, multi-market technology platform for Marketplace and WFS on a global scale.
• Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
• Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.
• This role requires a visionary leader who can balance technical expertise with strategic business acumen, and who is passionate about shaping the future of Walmart's global eCommerce and fulfillment technologies.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in computer science or related technical field.
• 12 years of object-oriented programming experience in Java, Spring boot, Microservices, React, NestJS, Node
• Experience working on Azure SQL, Cosmos, Blob Storage, GCS, Hive, Apache Spark and Airflow
• Good understanding of Data Structures
• 8+ years of experience in systems design, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Have programming experience preferably in the Finance/ retail / ecommerce industry.
• Python knowledge would be an added advantage
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS
• Experience working in Agile Methodology
• Experience using CI/CD, tools for logging and metrics
• A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate and optimize systems and tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Exposure to information retrieval, statistics, and machine learning.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

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 wh