Principal, Software Engineer
Walmart Inc. (company site, opens in a new tab)15–20 yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–80 LPA
Posted 2d ago
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About This Role
- Define and lead architecture and technical strategy of a scalable, secure service mesh platform (e.g., Istio) across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Own performance, reliability, and scalability of mesh control and data planes including SLOs/SLIs and operational runbooks; drive platform onboarding automation and developer experience improvements.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership including incident response, mentoring engineers, and leading complex initiatives impacting millions of users.
Minimum Requirements
- 15–20 years industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes/container orchestration and service mesh technologies (Istio or equivalent) including traffic management, security (mTLS), and control plane operations.
- Proficient in at least one systems programming language (Go preferred).
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/related area with 5+ years software engineering experience OR 7+ years software engineering experience without degree.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced leader driving strategic technical decisions in multi-team environments at scale with complex service connectivity requirements.
- Deep domain knowledge in cloud-native networking, service mesh architecture, security, and platform reliability engineering (SRE practices).
- Hands-on technologist who can mentor senior engineers and influence cross-organizational adoption of mesh technologies and tooling.