Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary

Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role

Join our innovative and dynamic People Technology engineering team as a Principal Software Engineer. In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in designing, developing, and implementing digital solutions that address mission‑critical business challenges, supporting Walmart associates. Your projects will have significant, scalable impact and drive Walmart’s modernization efforts in the People Technology organization.

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates focus on what matters most – supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including business, product, and other software engineers to understand the business problem, review requirements, draft technical specifications, scope, design, develop, test, and deploy services and systems.
• Lead your team in performing design and code reviews, improving operational excellence to ensure high quality, high availability, scalable, and performant systems.
• Create large, complex applications, services, and systems.
• Lead in a number of layers in the tech stack, from front‑end development to back‑end services and data platform.

• At least 10+ years of relevant industry experience in building highly available systems.
• Demonstrated end‑to‑end ownership from inception to deployment of complex projects in production.
• Effective problem‑solving skills, ability to make design tradeoffs, balancing the long‑term "big picture" and short‑term implications of design decisions.
• Understanding of cloud technology (architecture and deployments), including Azure Offerings, cloud storage, cloud security, cloud migration.
• Expertise with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD and operational excellence best practices.
• Experience with backend languages such as Java, Python or Node.js.
• Experience with React, Type Script, CSS, HTML5 and front‑end state management solutions such as Redux, Recoil, MobX, or similar.
• Experience with third‑party integrations via libraries, SDKs and APIs.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, including consensus building, conflict resolution, influence, and persuasion.
• Mentoring/coaching junior engineers in technical problem solving and career advancement.

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 are a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer, and we 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 train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. 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.

We use a hybrid model primarily in‑office with virtual work when not onsite. Our campus serves as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose, and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Compensation: $ - $ annually, with potential quarterly or annual performance bonuses.

Benefits include: 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, medical, vision and…