PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Inc. (company site, opens in a new tab)15+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 55–95 LPA
Posted 14h ago
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About This Role
- Set multi-year technical direction for Health & Wellness platforms, including architecture, technology choices, data strategy, and modernization across teams.
- Own reliable, low-latency healthcare data flows and high-stakes migrations, with accountability for data integrity, observability, and avoiding patient impact.
- Establish engineering standards and reliability strategy; influence executive decisions, lead incident response, and develop senior technical leaders.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: The role profile asks for 15+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years at staff or principal scope across multiple teams. The listed minimum qualifications separately state either a bachelor's degree in a related field plus 5 years' experience, or 7 years' experience without that degree.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area is required under the degree-based minimum-qualification option; an alternative experience-only option is listed.
- Technical and domain expertise: Expert Java/backend engineering, large-scale distributed systems, data platforms and batch/streaming pipelines, near-real-time data flows, and high-stakes data migrations; the role profile also requires deep understanding of HIPAA/HITECH and PHI/ePHI governance.
- Location: Daily work is based in the Bangalore or Chennai office; the listed primary location is Cessna Business Park, Bangalore.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Principal-level technical leader with a record of setting and gaining adoption for multi-year architecture direction across multiple teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Strong fit for platform-scale data engineering: near-real-time healthcare pipelines, data observability, large migrations, and resilient distributed systems operating at high throughput.
- Healthcare technology experience is especially relevant, particularly pharmacy, payer adjudication, clinical workflows, or interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7, NCPDP, or X12.