(USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer

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What you'll do...

About Walmart Global Tech At Walmart Global Tech , if you're thinking scale, think bigger—and don’t stop there. Imagine a regular day at Walmart Global Tech, then match that with 260 million customers per week, 11,695 stores, operating under 59 banners in 28 countries, and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. That’s the scale we operate at. Through our products and engineering services across all Walmart properties—stores, apps, and online—we help customers live better by saving them time and money. Our teams are engaged in cutting-edge engineering and product development to support Walmart’s strategy of offering customers an anywhere, anytime shopping experience. Our Team Advertisement Tech & Marketing Tech are core to Walmart’s strategy for engaging customers across both eCommerce and brick-and-mortar stores. This team owns the products that drive these capabilities across several international markets, with a net impact in the hundreds of millions of USD. Your Opportunity We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the design and architecture of next-generation AdTech/MarTech products. This role demands a focus on scalability, robustness, and security, while addressing diverse requirements from internal and external stakeholders. As part of a global team spread across Sunnyvale and Bangalore, your designs and solutions will significantly impact the day-to-day operations of these products. You’ll tackle complex business problems spanning multiple countries, large user bases, and vast datasets. Your Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, implementation, and documentation efforts.
• Be a thought leader in the team’s GenAI journey.
• Build, test, and deploy cutting-edge solutions at scale, impacting Walmart associates and customers across international markets.
• Collaborate with Walmart engineering teams globally to share expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• Partner with Product Management and Business teams to set priorities and deliver impactful products—comfortable with tough negotiations.
• Apply technical skills to design and build enhanced processes and solutions supporting strategic initiatives.
• Work closely with other architects and cross-functional teams, adhering to established architectural guidelines and delivery standards (Quality, Cost & Delivery).
• Translate goals for Operational and Engineering Excellence into technical milestones.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define the product roadmap.
• Participate in hiring and team building to enable high-performing agile teams.
• Engage with business owners and technical teams across geographies to gather requirements and define scalable, robust architecture.
• Create high-level and low-level designs, lead technical discussions, and drive decisions.
• Establish and guide teams on quality standards, best practices, and non-functional requirements.
• Implement cutting-edge models and algorithms on massive datasets.
• Contribute to and leverage open-source technologies for global impact.
• Represent the team in internal and external forums.
• Drive intellectual property initiatives—experience with patents/publications is a plus.

Your Qualifications

• B.Tech / B.E / M.Tech / M.S in Computer Science or related discipline.
• 15+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable distributed applications and platforms, especially multi-tenant SaaS products.
• Proven experience as an architect for large engineering teams (50+ engineers).
• Deep domain expertise in AdTech/MarTech.
• Demonstrated leadership in GenAI initiatives—examples of leading PoCs or implementations.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using DevOps best practices.
• Strong fundamentals in computer science: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Ability to manage tech debt and modernization efforts, balancing short-term and long-term goals.
• Proficiency in languages such as Java, Scala, Golang.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and RESTful web services using Java/NodeJS (SpringBoot, Dropwizard, etc.).
• Knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Expertise in cloud-