Staff, Software Engineer, GenAI Platform

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart's Associate Experience Platform team is seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to strengthen our GenAI experience platform. You will be hands-on developing critical platform capabilities with cutting-edge GenAI technologies, building reusable and extensible platform services, and ultimately bringing GenAI to the day-to-day of 2.2M Walmart associates worldwide.

About Team:
The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to the design and development of platform features with microservices (Fast API) and event-driven (Kafka, SSE, WebSocket) architecture
• Uphold the engineering and operational excellence standards and embrace automation following DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle
• Stay up to date with GenAI and adopt new solutions and best practices
• Collaborate with applied researchers and data scientists to bring cutting-edge GenAI research into application
• Be an active member of a dynamic team
• Support production operations by participating in on-call rotations

What you'll bring:

Essential skills

• Python Guru that embraces Pythonic way of thinking. You should be exceptional at writing high-performing production-quality code in Python

• Hands-on experience designing and building Python-based web services in production setting
• Familiar with version control using Git in collaboration settings
• Comfortable working with Linux and containers
• 4+ years of industry experience along with a proven track record of ownership and delivery

Supplemental skills

• Experience with developing GenAI-based applications
• Experience with JavaScript (React, Node.js)
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines in online advertising, recommender system, e-commerce, or relevant areas

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 ev