Software Engineer III

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CABentonville, AR
Employment
Full-time
Posted
69 days ago
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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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TL;DR · Software Engineer III

As a Software Engineer III on the Enterprise Compute Frontline team, you will design and develop automation solutions to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of large-scale on-premises infrastructure. You will build self-service platforms, infrastructure automation, and operational tooling to support hardware lifecycle management, provisioning, and fleet-scale operations for over 70,000 servers. Your daily work involves troubleshooting complex production issues, performing root cause analysis, and developing CI/CD pipelines to reduce operational toil. You will utilize expertise in Linux, VMware/Nutanix, and Kubernetes environments while leveraging Python, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies. This role solves critical infrastructure challenges by improving observability, incident response, and service reliability across a massive global hardware environment to ensure sustainable infrastructure growth and operational excellence.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement automation solutions for infrastructure provisioning and hardware lifecycle management.
  • Develop self-service platforms and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to improve scalability.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines and automate break/fix workflows to reduce manual operational effort.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis to drive rapid service recovery.
  • Improve observability, monitoring, and compliance through platform engineering initiatives.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to maintain service availability and reliability.
  • Drive continuous improvements to reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) across large-scale environments.

What we're looking for

  • Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 2 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • Option 2: 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • Experience managing and automating large-scale Linux, VMware/Nutanix, and Kubernetes environments.
  • Strong expertise in Python, Ansible, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD automation.
  • Knowledge of hardware lifecycle management, provisioning, break/fix operations, and reliability engineering.
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills in production environments.
  • Experience improving observability, service reliability, and MTTR through automation.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area (preferred).

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