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About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail
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As a Principal, Software Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader and architect for the Marketplace Traffic Exposure platform within the Marketplace Engineering team. You will drive the technical vision for Marketplace Orders and Returns systems, designing and scaling event-driven, microservices-based platforms. Your daily responsibilities include building APIs, webhooks, and app integrations alongside web front-end applications. You will lead platform engineering initiatives to improve developer productivity, system scalability, and reusability while solving complex challenges in distributed systems like data consistency and latency. The role requires deep expertise in Java, React, and Redux to build resilient, cloud-native systems. You will also leverage data and AI-driven insights to enhance system intelligence and manage the entire seller lifecycle for third-party marketplace participants.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Drive the technical vision and architecture for Marketplace Orders and Returns systems.
Design and scale event-driven, microservices-based platforms including APIs, webhooks, and app integrations.
Lead end-to-end architecture across backend services and modern web front-end applications using React/Redux.
Lead platform engineering initiatives to improve developer productivity, system scalability, and reusability.
Solve complex challenges in distributed systems regarding data consistency, resiliency, and latency.
Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions in partnership with Product and Engineering leaders.
Lead design reviews and establish engineering best practices for APIs and front-end applications.
Mentor senior engineers and provide hands-on technical contributions to critical systems.
What we're looking for
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
10+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale systems.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
Strong experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms with high availability and performance.
Proficiency in backend technologies (Java) and familiarity with modern web frameworks (React/Redux).
Experience designing and evolving APIs, webhooks, and external integrations at scale.
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience (preferred).
Cloud-Native Architecture
Distributed Systems
AI/ML
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
Real-time Data Processing
Software Development Lifecycle
Model-driven Design
WCAG) 2.2 AA
Java
Spring Boot
Kafka
No SQL
AI/ML
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native Architecture
Event Driven Architecture
Software Development Lifecycle
Platform Engineering
WCAG) 2.2 AA