PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About The Team You will serve as the technical north star for the Returns engineering organization and beyond. This group values highly resilient, defensive coding practices heavily grounded in modern Java ecosystems. We foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and deep technical rigor, where you will have the autonomy to solve massive enterprise architectural problems and make a profound, global impact on Walmart’s operations.

What You’ll Do

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy: Define the technical vision and architect sophisticated, highly scalable, and ultra-high-performing backend systems. Drive cross-domain architectural decisions impacting massive-scale business units like eCommerce, Fulfillment, and Inventory.

Technology Leadership: Spearhead the adoption of modern frameworks, advanced microservices architectures, and hybrid cloud strategies to build globally distributed solutions. Resolve the most critical, complex system bottlenecks and performance issues.

Strategic Collaboration: Partner intimately with Enterprise Architects, Product Leadership, and VP-level stakeholders to define long-term technical roadmaps, drive strategic innovations, and align engineering execution with business goals.

Mentorship & Culture: Act as a technical multiplier across the organization. Mentor Staff and Senior engineers, elevate overall engineering capabilities, and establish a culture of technical excellence, strict governance, and independent execution.

Innovation & Influence: Present groundbreaking architectural designs, industry trends, and strategic technical solutions to large organizational groups and executive leadership, acting as an industry thought leader.

What You’ll Bring

Education & Experience: An Engineering Degree (B.E/BTech/MTech/MS) in Computer Science or related field with 12-15+ years of deep, hands-on experience in software engineering and system architecture.

Core Java Expertise: Master-level proficiency in modern Java (Java 11/17+), JVM internals, advanced concurrency, multi-threading, and performance tuning at extreme scale.

Distributed Systems: Proven track record of designing, building, and operating massive-scale, globally distributed systems. Deep authoritative knowledge of scalability, fault tolerance, and high-availability patterns.

Data & Messaging: Master-level command over Distributed Databases (NoSQL/SQL), asynchronous messaging, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka) handling billions of events.

Cloud & Microservices: Extensive, hands-on architectural experience with Cloud technologies (Azure/GCP/AWS), advanced microservices patterns, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.

Engineering Excellence: Profound understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, and Algorithms. Ability to define and enforce SDLC best practices, CI/CD strategies, and strict operational guidelines for multiple teams.

Communication: Highly influential communication skills with a proven track record of effectively articulating complex technical strategies to executive leadership and driving cross-functional alignment.

About Walmart Global Tech 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 expert’s 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.

Flexible, hybrid work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive aw…