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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 (USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer, you will join the team managing enterprise-scale big data platforms to lead the design and development of scalable, cloud-native, AI-powered systems. You will be responsible for translating domain-level strategies into system-level implementations, ensuring architectural integrity, and driving operational excellence through code reviews and strategic decisions. Your daily work involves championing DevOps and CI/CD practices, mentoring engineers, and resolving architectural bottlenecks to improve developer experience. You will specifically build new capabilities in the Big Data space, focusing on improving Spark job performance and optimizing workloads to meet Big Data SLAs while reducing cloud capacity requirements. Key technical competencies include expertise in AI agents, reliability engineering, and building resilient, high-performing services within a governed data warehouse and lake environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1223 postings across 78 companies.
Lead the design and development of scalable, cloud-native, AI-powered software systems and intelligent automation solutions.
Translate domain-level strategies into system-level implementations while ensuring architectural integrity and reliability.
Drive operational excellence through technical guidance, code reviews, and strategic architectural decisions.
Champion DevOps and CI/CD practices to ensure resilient, observable, and performant services.
Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks to improve system scalability and developer experience.
Mentor engineers to foster continuous learning and uphold high standards in design and delivery.
Build new capabilities in the Big Data space to improve Spark job performance and optimize workloads.
Develop new approaches to meet Big Data SLAs while reducing cloud capacity requirements.
What we're looking for
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Proven expertise in designing and building scalable, cloud-native software systems and AI-powered solutions.
Strong technical leadership experience driving architectural integrity and operational excellence across engineering teams.
Deep knowledge of AI agents, Big Data, and reliability engineering to deliver resilient, high-performing services.
Demonstrated ability to lead the full software development lifecycle, including DevOps and CI/CD best practices.
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area (preferred).
Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies (preferred).
Java
Spring Boot
Apache Kafka
Apache Spark
Microservices
Cloud-native Architecture
CI/CD
Distributed Systems
Containers
API Design
Observability
Data Pipelines
WCAG) 2.2 AA