Principal, Software Engineer | Operational Excellence | Sunnyvale | Marketplace

Position Summary:

Be part of a team that is focused on creating a delightful seller experience and expanding Walmart’s reach through Marketplace . As part of Walmart’s Global Technology Organization, you will play a key role in redefining the future of shopping and creating innovative solutions while influencing millions of shoppers daily. Walmart Marketplace is a community of respected, professional sellers who offer top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer service and is an integral part of Walmart’s growth strategy. Fast-paced innovation is embedded into every aspect of how we work.

About the Team:

The Marketplace Engineering team is a well-rounded, passionate engineering organization focused on all aspects of Seller with a sharp focus on Engineering and operational excellence. This role works closely with Engineering Managers, Lead engineers, SRE, TechOps, and leaders across the organization to lead Engineering Excellence & Developer Productivity by working side by side with engineering teams. You will need to focus on creating a working model with a few teams and expand that to the entire organization to inculcate a Quality first, fail-fast mindset that relies on automation and leverage.

What you'll do:

1. Identify, develop, and execute opportunities to raise the bar on engineering & operational excellence.
2. Provide thought leadership and define strategy on developer productivity.
3. Partner with Platform teams and with engineering teams to drive adoption of CI/CD tools and processes.
4. Establish and align clear measurable goals to reduce incidents, drive accountability, and overall operational excellence.
5. Champion Engineering and Operational excellence goals for the organization, aligning with the broader organization to bring learnings and best practices to teams.
6. Champion architecture initiatives to increase platform resiliency for complex business processes.
7. Act as a single point of contact in driving cloud optimizations in partnership with the SRE team.
8. Be bold and take calculated risks.
9. Understand SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public or private cloud offerings.

What you’ll bring:

1. 10+ years' experience in leading engineering teams, Engineering Excellence, and/or Developer Productivity initiatives.
2. Experience with public cloud (Azure/GCP) and private cloud.
3. Well versed in architecture disciplines and executed in developing high-performance, large scalable, and resilient enterprise systems.
4. Proven track record of driving test automation to single-click deployments.
5. Java experience with SQL, NoSQL, Messaging, Queuing, Caching.
6. Strong experience with Networking concepts, Security, CDNs, Cloud Services (Azure and GCP preferred), DevOps, Kubernetes.
7. Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting best practices and tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk highly desirable.
8. A go-getter approach to problem-solving to work across organizations.

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 experts, 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 that is primarily in-office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose, and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, and 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 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Minimum Qualifications:

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 or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area. We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location:
680 West California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4834, United States of America.