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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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JOB TITLE: (USA) Principal, Software Engineer-Experimentation Platform
The Principal, Software Engineer-Experimentation Platform joins the Walmart Experimentation Platform team to lead the technical direction for backend services. This role involves designing, developing, and scaling efficient systems and pipelines to support global experimentation needs. You will drive the multiyear technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and partner with data scientists and product managers to advance experimentation methodologies. Key responsibilities include authoring architecture proposals, managing projects across multiple teams, and ensuring operational excellence for mission-critical systems. Required technical skills include expertise in Java, Scala, Lua, or Rust, along with experience maintaining compute environments across local and cloud-based systems. The role focuses on solving the technical challenges of building a reliable, scalable self-serve experimentation platform, including A/B testing, feature flags, and risk-mitigated deployments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Arkansas?
Median $165000 from 155 postings across 3 companies.
Define the technical roadmap and multi-quarter strategy for the experimentation platform services.
Design, develop, and scale efficient backend systems and pipelines to support global teams.
Author architecture proposals and lead design reviews to set technical direction across services.
Translate business requirements into technical solutions including design docs, implementation plans, and code.
Troubleshoot production issues by performing root cause analysis and formulating action plans.
Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers to enable them to lead large-scale technical initiatives.
Lead evaluations and integration of emerging technologies through proof-of-concepts and adoption strategies.
Ensure operational excellence by driving incident mitigation and upholding code quality and security standards.
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.
Proven technical leadership of a team of engineers.
Experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining large-scale systems.
Expertise in one or more of the following: Java, Scala, Lua, or Rust.
Ability to maintain and deploy compute environments across local and cloud-based systems.
Expertise in reliability engineering, observability, platform governance, and operational excellence for mission-critical systems.
Experience with experimentation (A/B testing), feature flags, data solutions, AI/ML products, or open-source contributions (preferred).
Java
React
GraphQL
BigQuery
CI/CD
Cloud-Native Architecture
Microservices
Containers
ML Frameworks
API Design
Observability
Distributed Systems
System Design
Platform Engineering
Cloud-Native
Distributed Systems
AI
ML
CI/CD
Observability
Model-Driven Design
Software Development Lifecycle
Real-time Data Processing
Incident Response
WCAG) 2.2 AA
Java
Python
JavaScript
Dart
Rust
C++
Cloud-native Architecture
Distributed Systems
AI/ML
CI/CD
Observability
Model-driven Design
Software Development Lifecycle
Real-time Data Processing
WCAG) 2.2 AA
Python
Java
C++
AI/ML
Cloud-native
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
Observability
Software Development Lifecycle
Real-time Data Processing
Testing
WCAG) 2.2 AA