PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Inc. (company site, opens in a new tab)12+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–85 LPA
Posted 6h ago
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About This Role
- Design, build, and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines at Walmart scale using Spark, Java, and Python.
- Own data quality, observability, governance, and operational engineering excellence for critical data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Set technical direction, lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and integrate AI/GenAI capabilities into data platforms.
Minimum Requirements
- 12+ years professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on data engineering at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Java, Python, and Spark for distributed data processing is mandatory.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with Big Data ecosystem including Hadoop/HDFS, Hive, Kafka, and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow).
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Seasoned engineer capable of setting technical standards and working autonomously in a new platform environment with ambiguous problems.
- Expertise in advanced data platform technologies and AI/Agentic integration including embeddings, LLM tooling, and MLOps pipelines.
- Strong distributed systems and software engineering craftsmanship with experience in domain-oriented and low-level system design.