Principal Software Engineer - Tech

Position Summary...

Shape the Future of Global Infrastructure at Walmart

Walmart Global Tech is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the architecture and development of our next-generation Zero-Touch Networking platform. In this role, you’ll design intelligent, scalable systems that transform how infrastructure is managed across one of the world’s largest technology environments.

This is a rare opportunity to apply your engineering leadership and deep technical expertise to solve real-world, global-scale infrastructure problems—automating systems that power over 10,000 locations and hundreds of millions of transactions daily.

What you'll do...

Shape the Future of Global Infrastructure at Walmart 
Walmart Global Tech is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the architecture and development of our next-generation Zero-Touch Networking platform. In this role, you’ll design intelligent, scalable systems that transform how infrastructure is managed across one of the world’s largest technology environments. 
This is a rare opportunity to apply your engineering leadership and deep technical expertise to solve real-world, global-scale infrastructure problems—automating systems that power over 10,000 locations and hundreds of millions of transactions daily. 
 Note- “Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role”.
What You’ll Do 

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  Define and lead architecture for core infrastructure automation components, including orchestrators, workflow engines, configuration managers, and auto-remediation pipelines. 

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  Build and scale intent-based networking capabilities that abstract away manual operations and enable real-time, policy-driven infrastructure control. 

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  Design extensible APIs and microservices that empower internal teams through intuitive, self-service automation. 

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  Lead platform reliability practices—ensuring high availability, robust observability, and clear incident response workflows. 

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  Collaborate with cross-functional teams (networking, SRE, cloud, security, observability) to align technical solutions with business needs. 

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  Mentor and influence engineers across the organization, shaping Walmart’s infrastructure engineering culture and best practices. 

 
Who You Are 

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  A strategic and hands-on engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building distributed systems or infrastructure platforms at scale. 

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  Deep expertise in infrastructure as code, network automation, and intent-based system design. 

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  Proficient in Go, Python, and frameworks like Django. 

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  Comfortable operating in environments with high reliability and uptime expectations (SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations). 

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  Familiar with modern DevOps tooling: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting frameworks, GitOps practices. 

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  Experienced with source-of-truth systems