(IND) PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 11, 2026. Walmart scores A on the Alion truth index.
Position Summary...
Delivers platform capabilities across Gloabl Tech, including shared infrastructure, reusable tooling, and scalable ML frameworks across developer productivity tools.Aligns engineering efforts with roadmap milestones and domain strategies, ensuring execution supports long-term platform evolution.
Applies cloud-native architecture principles and best practices in distributed system design to enable high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
What you'll do...
About the team
Walmart is seeking a Principal, Software Engineer, to lead platform engineering initiatives that deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions and AI-enhanced applications. This role involves driving the full software development lifecycle, aligning technical efforts with strategic roadmaps, and fostering engineering excellence through mentorship and collaboration. The position requires expertise in distributed system design, AI/ML integration, and technical leadership to ensure high availability, reliability, and innovation. The successful candidate will engage cross-functional teams to translate business needs into effective technical solutions that support Walmart’s long-term platform evolution and operational goals.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate and Innovate: Work in a dynamic, cross-functional team environment, sharing creative ideas and partnering with engineers, designers, and product managers to shape the vision and architecture of our web platforms.
- End-to-End Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance applications using a modern tech stack, ensuring seamless integration between frontend and backend components.
- Problem Solving: Conduct root cause analysis on applications to address business questions, identify performance bottlenecks, and uncover opportunities for improvement.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Engage with engineering teams across geographies to share knowledge, leverage expertise, and contribute to the broader tech community.
What You’ll bring
- Bachelors/Masters degree on computer science, software engineering or related area
- 14+ yrs of experience with strong expertise in modern application development using AI
- AI Skills: Generative AI, LLMs, Agentic and RAG frameworks to lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI systems. This role involves architecting scalable solutions, integrating agentic frameworks, and mentoring engineering teams to push the boundaries of AI-driven innovation.
- Backend Expertise: Deep proficiency in Java, J2EE, and Spring Framework with strong knowledge of JVM internals (concurrency, multi-threading).
- Solid understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture and hands-on experience building RESTful web services.
- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and database concepts, with expertise in SQL and relational databases like Postgres, Microsoft SQL-Server and BigQuery
- Experience with distributed systems and technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Python is highly desirable.
- Frontend Expertise: Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like ReactJS, React Native, Redux, Webpack, and Node.js.
- Experience building responsive, user-friendly interfaces with AJAX and modern frontend tooling.
- Cloud and DevOps: Hands-on experience with cloud development and deploying applications in cloud environments.
- Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, log aggregation, monitoring, and alerting for production systems.
- System Design: Proven ability to build scalable, highly available distributed systems in production environments.
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.
We’re back to work
Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Chennai office for daily work, with flexibility for associates to manage their 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.
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 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 7 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 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.