Principal Software Engineer | Personalization

**Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.**

Personalization team at Walmart develops and manages large scale interfaces leveraging advanced system designs. The experience for millions of customers is catered to their preferences and purchase patterns allowing them to quickly complete their buying experience. While doing so, we look to build a trusted partnership with the customers. This team works on large scale data systems and infers about customer's engagement through their journey, seasons and online activities. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can lead the architecture and interface driven to generate and surface Images at scale. They would be interacting extensively with business users, product owners to build systems that canscale to the generative use cases and at the same time accepts feedback from the users.

About Team:

Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.

What you'll do:

• Provide deep technical expertise and thoughts that help accelerate adoption of the best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
• Drives complex analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging of computer software for distinct product hardware or technical service lines of businesses.
• Perform LLM design, operating architecture integration, and computer system selection.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards.
• Visionaries, collaborating on Walmart’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our members and associates.
• Identify opportunities at the engineering and product side and influence leaders and engineers to solve high impact problems.
• Mentor, coach, and strengthen the technical expertise for success, improvement and ensuring diversity awareness within the team.
• Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities.
• Leads the discovery phase of large software engineering projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine project strategy.
• Interpreting strategy into sustainable architecture and solutions; identifying short- and long-term solutions and timelines; driving prototype development to ensure concept is feasible.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years of experience providing technical and architectural guidance, with 3+ years in technical lead or architect roles.
• Extensive experience with Image Processing, serving at scale both in near real-time and real-time systems.
• Lead/participate the design, development and implementation of complex solutions/algorithms that drive business results leveraging Python, Java, Spring framework, Kafka, and cloud experience such as Azure. etc.
• Prior experience with LLM frameworks(E.g. GPT 4.0, ModelFusion, LangChain etc.) is must.
• Expertise in service oriented and distributed systems architecture, Relational and/or NoSQL Database
• Container technologies such as Docker on Kubernetes
• Strong API design, development, and management
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in both written and verbal modes across multiple functional teams.
• Extensive experience with cloud native technology, CI/CD
• Create and capture best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures (e.g., white papers, code samples, blog posts).
• Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes.
• Provide guidance and drive engineering excellence covering site reliability, alerts & monitoring, product health and portability.
• Passionate about coaching and mentoring engineers of all experience levels
• Passionate about solving deep technical challenges. It’s a must

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 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:

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.

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