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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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As a (USA) Senior, Software Engineer, you will join the Site Reliability Engineering team within Data Ventures to build platform automation, observability, and reliability practices. You will develop AI and GenAI-powered tooling, including intelligent developer tools, workflow automation, and agentic services to accelerate incident resolution and improve customer support. Your daily responsibilities include owning service reliability, scalability, and observability through SLOs, distributed tracing, and alerting. You will build self-healing systems to reduce manual toil and establish unified SRE standards across the organization. The role requires proficiency in programming, cloud platforms, microservices, data pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code. You will solve technical problems related to 24x7 site coverage, incident management, and building scalable B2B solutions that provide merchants and suppliers with actionable data insights.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Build AI, GenAI, and agentic-powered platform capabilities including intelligent developer tooling and workflow automation.
Own platform reliability, scalability, and observability by managing SLOs, distributed tracing, and alerting.
Develop self-healing systems and AI-powered reliability tools to reduce manual intervention and operational toil.
Establish and improve SRE standards including unified dashboards, automation frameworks, and incident management practices.
Drive tight SLAs and reduce incident volume to ensure 24x7 site coverage and resilience.
Partner cross-functionally to accelerate customer support excellence through automation and AI integration.
What we're looking for
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years’ experience in software engineering.
Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's experience (preferred).
Strong software engineering skills developing and operating reliable, scalable distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
Solid understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs/SLOs, observability, alerting, and incident management.
Hands-on experience applying AI/GenAI and agentic technologies to reliability engineering, self-healing systems, and intelligent incident response.
Proficiency in programming, cloud platforms, microservices, data pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.
Demonstrated ability to drive the full SDLC, including CI/CD, testing, code reviews, deployment automation, production monitoring, and debugging.
Java
ReactJS
NodeJS
JavaScript
Swift
Kotlin
RESTful API
GraphQL
AI
ML
Generative AI
CI/CD
Figma
Charles
Postman
WCAG) 2.2 AA
Automated Testing
Observability