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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 Staff, Software Engineer within the Site Reliability Engineering team at Walmart Data Ventures, you will provide technical leadership to enhance reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for B2B data solutions. You will drive SRE strategy by architecting reusable automation frameworks, unified dashboards, and SLO tooling. Your daily work involves engineering GenAI-powered agents for incident triage, root cause analysis, and self-healing systems to reduce operational toil. You will utilize a technical stack including Kubernetes, containers, microservices, data pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code. Key responsibilities include leading architecture reviews, managing CI/CD pipelines, and establishing standards for observability and incident management. This role solves critical reliability problems by standardizing engineering practices and improving platform visibility across complex distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Drive SRE strategy and best practices for reliability, observability, and incident management across the organization.
Architect reusable automation frameworks, unified dashboards, and SLO tooling to improve platform-wide visibility.
Engineer GenAI-powered agents for incident triage, root cause analysis, and self-healing systems.
Set technical direction for scalability and resilience to reduce incidents and operational toil.
Influence engineering practices through architecture reviews and the establishment of reusable patterns.
Advance engineering quality through CI/CD, automated testing, and production readiness 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 4 years’ experience in software engineering.
Option 2: 6 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 2 years' experience (preferred).
Strong software engineering expertise in scalable distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
Deep knowledge of SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
Hands-on experience with AI/GenAI and agentic solutions for reliability engineering, customer support, automation, and self-healing systems.
Proficiency in programming, cloud platforms, microservices, data pipelines, Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies (preferred).