PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026. Walmart scores A on the Alion truth index.
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About Team:
This is the team that ensures our customers receive their orders as fast as they want and where they want, in a friction-less, predictable way. Build reusable SaaS products and services that manage our catalog and power end-to-end inventory management, ranging from replenishment and fulfilment to transportation. With end-to-end inventory
management, ranging from replenishment and fulfilment to transportation, they provide our drivers and partners with the tools they need to get the right items, on time, in the right packaging to customers.
Our team is responsible for design, development, and operations of applications used in the day to day working of Walmart’s Supply Chain. We focus on developing micro-services for different supply chain operations which are then being leveraged using mobile and web applications by our associates at the warehouse. We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable robust technical solutions.
Position Responsibilities:
· Through this role you have an opportunity to develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the customer and the company.
· You will be responsible for design, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of one or more systems/products while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
· You will have to estimate effort, identify risks, help with prioritization and devising/meeting project schedules.
· You will raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
· You will build and maintain systems in a way that ensures compliance with certification, regulatory standards, and a technology-based information security program.
· You will show your skills in analyzing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance
· You will be Mentoring /coaching other engineers in the team to facilitate their development.
Position Requirements:
Minimum qualifications:
· A BE/BTech/ME/MTech//PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
· 10+ years of strong design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed systems and products
· Expertise in Data analysis and engineering.
· Extensive experience in architecting and developing real-time multithreaded Java applications that are fault-tolerant, scalable and can handle high volumes
· Excellent computer systems fundamentals, DS/Algorithms and problem solving skills.
· Expert in OO design and design patterns.
· Basic knowledge (coding experience) in Java, Spring Framework, Oracle, NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes.
· Good exposure to any of the public cloud infrastructure such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS.
· Experience in developing and designing applications and web services in a Service Oriented Architecture, including the use of RESTful services and API gateways.
· Mentor junior developers and continuously improve software engineering practices.
Additional Qualifications:
· Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.
· Nice to have full stack experience with Java, React, Nodejs.
· A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize systems and tools.
· Excellent organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
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 with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, 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 a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, 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.
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.