Senior, Software Engineer (Search MLOps)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a Senior Software Engineer - Search MLOps , 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 lead project teams consisting of other engineers achieving shared goals.

About Team: Search MLOps

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 member of the Model Serving team, you'll be responsible for supporting and enhancing the Walmart MLOps platform. Your duties will include suggesting ideas to achieve low latency and high performance for ML models, guiding other engineers in developing and productionizing these ideas, staying updated on the latest ML technologies to improve the Walmart ML platform, and integrating the newest ML runtimes and tools. You will also provide suggestions for optimizing and improving the performance of trained ML models. Additionally, you will independently handle high-impact, critical platform and system monitoring issues and troubleshoot business and production problems. As part of the team, you'll have the opportunity to work for the world's largest retailer and contribute to the development of best-in-class methodologies that significantly impact perception and transform business practices.

The larger search ecosystem is a large distributed system powered mostly by the JVM with Java as our primary programming language. We heavily use kubernetes, Solr, Redis, Kafka, Spark and NoSQL, among other cutting-edge technologies in our core platform. Experience with these technologies would be advantageous but is not required.

What you'll do:

• Assist in solving problems by writing and developing code, conducting unit testing, communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders, troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes, and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs.

• Assist in providing guidance to engineers for assigned Engineering projects by providing detailed technical feedback through various channels including pair programming and code reviews.

• Provide support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues

• Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause) and performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues.

• Participate in the discovery phase of medium to large-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, user experience teams, and engineering teams.

• Effectively translating requirements into project parameters while working with agility from cradle to grave.

• Helping cross-functional teams to solve for business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a "best-in-class" customer experience.

• Encouraging the project teams that you are part of to work collaboratively and to aim for insight-driven outcomes.

• The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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