Staff Software Engineer

What you'll do at

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Project Diamond 

Project Diamond is an exciting and high-profile project at Walmart whose purpose is to solve the biggest inventory challenges in retail using Artificial Intelligence, mobile devices, and embedded systems. We are a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team who recently graduated from Store No8, Walmart’s technology incubator, into Walmart Global Tech. Does the process of building a product from scratch, proving business value and rapidly scaling inspire you? Project Diamond might be just what you’re looking for!  

Walmart Global Tech is transforming to meet the needs of the future of retail, ensuring that Walmart is that place in which people can grow their careers, and our organization ensures the best experience for the talent we manage and optimal service to the business. Leaders and individual contributors alike look to our Global Talent teams to influence talent strategy, optimize the recruiting process, and enable the business to make the best hiring decisions. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. 

About the Role

As a Staff Software (Backend) Engineer for Project Diamond, your focus will be developing next-generation
algorithms, data platforms, and API frameworks to make data useful for projects within our project and beyond.
You will partner with data science, product, engineering, store operations and legal teams. You will need to be a
self-starter with bias for action and excellent communication skills. Together, we will pioneer technologies that
reinvent the customer and associate experience, new ways of working, and new ways of shopping.
 

If you are motivated by complex, purposeful challenges, a Staff Software (Backend) Engineer role within
Project Diamond could be the fit you’ve been looking for.

What you'll do

• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Software Engineering and apply this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans.
• Analyzes business problems to design solutions and/or implements and tests complex code changes for specific requirements or application.
• Primarily responsible for delivering high quality technical designs and code for the product requirements in a fast-paced agile scrum sprint.
• Designing complex systems which are scalable and fault tolerant.
• Implement application which meet throughput and SLAs requirements.
• Implement unit test cases, perform code reviews, and write feature documentation.
• Perform build, deployment, and continuous integration processes to move the code and configurations from local development environments to QA & Production environments.
• Drive production deployments using platform’s automated CI and deployment tools
• Provide support as SME for the functional domain.

What you'll bring

• Design and develop highly scalable services and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
• Design, Develop, prototype and build micro services using Go.
• Working on SQL/No-SQL database technologies such as Oracle, Cosmos DB, Casandra and Solr.
• Working with Async Message processing systems like Kafka and JMS technologies to process the messages and integrate across systems.
• Tune performance of the application by understanding and monitoring resource consumption of both memory and CPUs.
• Hand-On experience on application logging, reporting and monitoring tools like Splunk and Grafana
• Build and deploy applications using CI/CD tools.
• Integrate application with various software stacks from Azure and GCP.

What Wow Us

• Scripting skills in at least one of the following: Shell, Perl, Python.
• Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Spark)
• Excellent analytics skills to understand the systems and identify gaps.
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment
• Experience in production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.)
• Has ambition and vigor to add value to a rapidly growing development team

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience
• Proven industry experience with large scale distributed systems
• Experience in designing & developing GraphQL APIs and/or REST APIs
• Solid experience with object-oriented and/or event driven systems
• Strong programming experience in object-oriented programming e.g. Java, Scala
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience building application with Go.

Perks and Benefits 

Beyond competitive pay, 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.  

#LI-PL1

#LI-Remote

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related field OR 6 years’ experience in software
engineering or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering

Primary Location...

2501 SE J STREET SUITE 6, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712-7722, United States of America

About Walmart

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability—and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries—all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

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.