Software Engineer

Job highlights

• Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position
• strong proficiency in Java and Python is required -. comfortable writing,reviewing,and debugging production code,not just directing others
• Preferred Qualifications
• Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position

Position Summary… Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. What youll do…

About Team

GDF (Global Data Foundation) is part of Walmarts AI Data organization - the team building the foundational data platforms that power AI, analytics, and decision-making across every Walmart banner and geography, from supply chain and merchandising to customer experience and enterprise AI agents.

Our newly created platform team is chartered with building next-generation data infrastructure at Walmart scale: reliable, high-throughput data pipelines, distributed processing systems, and platform capabilities that downstream teams across Walmart depend on every day.

What Youll Do

• Design, build, and operate distributed platform services and APIs using Java and Python, applied

against Kubernetes or equivalent cloud-native infrastructure.

• Apply domain-oriented design, system design, and low-level design (LLD) rigor to ambiguous platform

problems - evaluating dependencies, trade-offs, failure modes, scalability, cost, and long-term

durability before writing a line of code.

• Flex into data engineering work when needed: contribute directly to Spark-based data pipelines and

processing jobs, working comfortably in GDFs data engineering codebase alongside platform work.

• Build AI, GenAI, and agentic-powered platform capabilities: intelligent developer tooling, workflow

automation, agentic services, and AI-assisted operational tooling (monitoring, incident triage, capacity

planning).

• Own platform reliability, scalability, and observability - service-level objectives, distributed tracing,

alerting, and incident response for services you build, with a strong Operational Excellence /

Engineering Excellence discipline.

• Guide architecture and system design decisions across microservices, event-driven systems, and

enterprise integrations, with an explicit eye toward how platform choices affect downstream data

engineering workloads.

• Partner with data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to ensure platform services expose the

right primitives for data pipelines, feature stores, and model-serving paths.

• Establish engineering standards through architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and

production readiness reviews for a team building process from scratch.

• As a Staff engineer, set technical direction and best practices within your team and technical domain

without needing a management title - mentor other engineers and influence GDFs broader platform

engineering standards.

• Continuously evaluate emerging platform, cloud, and AI/agentic technologies, adop…