Software Engineer - DevOps

Position Summary

You will join Walmart’s Transactional Systems organization, designing and enhancing critical systems that protect Walmart’s customers and business from fraudulent activity across our global transaction platforms. Your focus will be on Dev Ops and SRE best practices to ensure these systems are reliable, scalable, and secure, enabling seamless and safe transactions at massive scale.

• Architect, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code solutions tailored for fraud detection and prevention platforms.
• Lead the design and rollout of SRE tooling, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response automation for high‑risk transactional systems.
• Drive adoption of Dev Ops and SRE principles across the team, mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure high availability, resilience, and security of fraud detection services.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, applying deep technical expertise to swiftly diagnose and mitigate production issues, ensuring high availability and minimal disruption to customer support experiences.
• Champion operational excellence by identifying and eliminating toil, automating repetitive tasks, and improving system observability.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of internal standards and best practices for deployment, change management, reliability, and security.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, Dev Ops, or SRE roles, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or staff/principal capacity.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, or AWS), Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, enabling quick troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD), configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Terraform), and observability stacks (Openobserve, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Splunk).
• Familiarity with security concepts and best practices.
• Proven track record of designing and operating highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems—ideally in transactional or fraud prevention environments.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, mentoring mindset.

• Experience with real‑time data processing, or high‑throughput transactional platforms.
• Experience with AI agents, MCP, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Spanner and/or Cassandra.
• Contributions to open‑source Dev Ops/SRE tools or communities.

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’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who 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 are people‑led and tech‑empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, 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.

Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

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