Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Be part of a team that is focused on creating a delightful seller experience and in expanding Walmart’s reach through Marketplace. As part of Walmart eCommerce, you will play key role in redefining the future of shopping and create innovative solutions while influencing millions of shoppers daily. Walmart Marketplace is a community of respected, professional sellers who offer only top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer service and is an integral part of Walmart’s growth strategy. Fast-paced innovation is embedded into every aspect of how we work.
Marketplace Engineering team is well rounded passionate engineering org focused on all aspects of Seller with sharp focus on Engineering and Operational excellence. This role works closely with other Architects, lead engineers, managers across the org to lead technical aspect of large-scale, cross-functional distributed systems and technical excellence.
You will need to translate business requirements into scalable, highly available, architectures leveraging micro-service architectures and the latest technologies. You should have significant experience building and operating Software-as-a-Service at the highest scale.
You’ll make an impact by:
- Providing thought leadership and defining technology strategies.
- Being an admired subject matter expert in one or multiple technology areas.
- Directing and reviewing architectural artifacts (proof of concepts, prototypes, architectural design) and providing valuable recommendations for improvements.
- Advising or conducting POCs to vet out new technologies.
- Driving for Architecture, Engineering, Technology and Operational excellence
- Understand the critical success criteria for any project and take a fail-fast (or, preferably, succeed fast) approach to informing/proving system design and architecture.
- Building systems that are easy to operate and scale delivering the highest SLAs
- Big-picture and strategic thinking.
- Delivering with agility, urgency, and quality.
- Building trust and credibility quickly with Sr. Leadership and stakeholders.
- Being a self-starter, with a mindset for innovation and Can-Do Spirit.
- Being bold and taking calculated risks.
- Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings.
What you’ll bring…
- A minimum of 15 years overall experience.
- Experience with Azure, GCP, or private cloud.
- Well versed in architecture disciplines and designed high performance, large scalable, and resilient enterprise systems.
- Proven track record of designing, delivering, and supporting large scale, mission critical services
- Significant experience evaluating, assessing, and recommending enterprise-wide cutting edge technology components
- Familiar with integrating data science analytics and ML models into real-time applications.
- A passionate technologist and abreast with industry trends and innovation
- Define reusable and proven patterns, frameworks, reference models to drive Engineering and Architecture quality and speed.
- Train and mentor junior architects and engineers in globally distributed teams.
- Strong Java experience with SQL. NoSQL, Messaging, Queuing, Caching are all required.
- Strong experience with Networking concepts, Security, CDNs, Cloud Services (Azure and GCP preferred), DevOps, Kubernetes.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting best practices and tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk are highly desirable.
- Experience with distributed NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Riak, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, etc.)
- Strong operational skills and awareness are a must.
- Go getter approach to problem solving to work across organizations.
- Be able to code and prototype, do code reviews and design reviews
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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.
The annual salary range for this position is $208,000.00-$416,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
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 and7 years’ experience in software engineering, architecture, or related area.Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering, architecture, 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 5 years' experience in software engineering, architecture, 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.
Primary Location...
680 West California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4834, United States of America
Top Skills
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
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