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Position Summary…
What you’ll do…
Want to be part of a new team that is being stood up now, and be a founding member to set the strategy, culture, technology and working norms? Check out New Ventures! It’s a unique chance to be an entrepreneur building something new from the ground up, while backed by the strength of Walmart and leveraging the assets of the world’s largest omnichannel retailer.
To fulfill the charter of this new business initiative, there is need for top notch talent with expertise in Big Data and Distributed Systems. You would be working on challenging problems in terms of enhancing big data platforms to support data science initiatives. All the problems will require building solutions at Walmart scale. The best part is that your solutions will generate tangible and immediate business impact.
There is a vibrant infrastructure community in Walmart Global Tech which provides great learning and collaboration opportunities. Apart from the numerous internal events, there is active participation in external events. All the work we do in Walmart Global Tech will eventually benefit our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will technically help and assist the team to steer through correct technical directions following the best practices. You will have a deeper understanding of Software Development approaches along with hands-on experience in building highly scalable solutions.
You’ll make an impact by:
- Developing Data Strategy: Understands, articulates, and applies principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function.
- Applying Business Acumen: Provides recommendations to business stakeholders to solve complex business issues. Develops business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings.
- Scaling Systems: Build large scale systems to process customer data. Enable data scientists to run its model in batch and real-time. Continuous collaboration to scale the systems to support model inferencing.
- Strategic Thinking: Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.
You’ll sweep us off our feet if:
- You are a technically strong and high performing individual with excellent communication skills, proven Big Data, distributed systems with good experience in technologies like Spark, Scala, Kafka, and Hadoop
- You stay updated with latest research and technology ideas and have a passion to utilize innovative ways to solve problems. Experience with Airflow/Nifi, Kafka streams, Druid or similar technologies.
- You can apply principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems.
- You are a good storyteller and able to simply articulate the intricacies of your models as well as explain your results clearly to stakeholders.
What you’ll bring:
- Minimum 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related field
- Experience in architecture, tools, and deployments in the hyper-scalers like GCP/Azure/AWS
- Experience with data engineering to stream and process datasets at low latencies
- Experience in operationalizing automated CI/CD pipelines of ML Models
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 duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
About 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 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 the office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for a 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 & Perks:
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.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor’s degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
– Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
– Stock equity incentives
Minimum Qualifications…
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
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 or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
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, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years’ experience in software engineering or related area
Primary Location… 840 W CALIFORNIA AVE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4828, 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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
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