(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Description

Position Summary...

The Data Ventures team advances supplier-facing analytics by integrating data engineering, product intelligence, and supplier experience. They develop a centralized, role-aware intelligence platform delivering real-time insights into key business metrics. Their solutions enable dynamic, self-serve analytics and replace offline workflows with AI-driven forecasting and recommendations. Focused on scalable data products, the team directly impacts supplier health and supply chain performance. This collaborative environment emphasizes innovation, technical excellence, and delivering actionable insights that empower suppliers to make informed decisions efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Role summary:
• Join Walmart as a Principal Software Engineer to lead platform engineering initiatives that deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions and AI-enhanced applications. This role drives the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, reliability, and innovation in distributed systems. The position requires strategic technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with cross-functional partners to align engineering efforts with business goals. The successful candidate will champion continuous improvement, technical excellence, and the integration of advanced technologies to support Walmart’s evolving platform capabilities and long-term roadmap.
• Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for this position
• Deliver platform capabilities including infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks aligned with roadmap priorities.
• Drive full software development lifecycle activities such as coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Apply cloud-native architecture principles to ensure scalable, resilient, and agile systems.
• Lead system design reviews to validate quality and alignment with architectural standards.
• Build AI-driven applications integrating ML components for automation and multi-step reasoning.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and promote engineering excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define user problems and translate them into actionable technical requirements.
• Continuously improve processes, tools, and products through innovation and data-driven practices.
• What you'll bring:
• Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture, including microservices, containers, and automation to build scalable and resilient systems.
• Strong proficiency in software design patterns, API design , and platform development to deliver maintainable and modular solutions.
• Experience leading Full Stack software development lifecycle activities, including coding using JAVA, React, GraphQL and BigQuery, testing, CI/CD deployment, and observability.
• Ability to conduct system design reviews ensuring alignment with architectural best practices and project goals.
• Skilled in mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions to promote engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Data-driven problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering high-quality, customer-centric software solutions.
• About Walmart Global Tech:
• Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
• We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
• Flexible, hybrid work
• We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for
• development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

• Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.