(USA) Senior, Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Position Summary...

Our Containers team is part of the Global Technology Platform organization, delivering a world-class Kubernetes platform internally called the Walmart Cloud-Native Platform (WCNP). We operate a massive fleet of thousands of Kubernetes clusters across Public, Private & Edge compute locations.

We are creating a seamless containerized app hosting experience for our app developers in multiple Public Cloud providers and Private Data Centers, as well as running the Edge program in Stores, Distribution Centers/Fulfillment Centers running WCNP on-prem. Besides the fast-growing WCNP footprint in US-based businesses, we’re rapidly expanding internationally as well.

What you'll do...

As a Senior, Software Engineer on the WCNP team, you’ll influence, coach, and be a servant leader to multiple teams participating and contributing to transforming product and platform in this space. 

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and support Walmart’s massive Kubernetes platform across public, private and edge computing environments.
• Build and improve our Kubernetes multi-cluster deployment product.
• Direct root cause analysis of critical business and production issues.
• Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects.
• Be a technical lead and drive the team towards building a highly scalable and performing Container platform.
• Bring new ideas for product enhancement.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

If You Are:

• Eager to work on the line between Software Engineering and System Engineering.
• Able to introduce changes with minimal complexity.
• Writing code that is testable and readable, and paying down technical debt regularly.
• Always seeing ways to incrementally improve systems and remove unnecessary complexity.
• Natural leader who takes ownership of the team’s deliverables.
• Willing to take responsibility for running a critical part of our infrastructure.
• Technical leader to solve a highly scalable, reliable and performance challenges in cloud platform

What you need to be successful in the role:

• 6 + yrs Software Engineering experience at a startup, or mid to large sized corp.
• Proficient oral and written communication skills.
• Go programming language proficiency. Java is also nice to have.
• Working knowledge in container and cloud native technologies – Kubernetes, Docker, other
• Prior experience developing or working with Cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or OpenStack is highly desired.
• Prior experience developing or working with CI/CD or GitOps systems is highly desired.
• Infrastructure provision and management Knowledge at scale for public & private cloud (Azure, GCP, VMware, Nutanix, Openstack) is good to have
• Exposer to security compliance and management of k8s security component (RBAC, OPA, Vault, etc) would be valuable
• Prior experience of building a Kubernetes operator is good to have.
• Knowledge of opensource tools like istio, Prometheus, fluentbit is good to have
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-code technologies like Ansible, Terraform, etc. is preferable

We’d Love To See:

• Experience as Technical lead.
• Track record of running large-scale systems.
• Containerization experience, especially Docker and Kubernetes

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 every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions an