(IND) Distinguished, Software Engineer

About The Team At Walmart Global Tech, the Marketplace Engineering team is at the forefront of redefining global commerce at scale. We are the backbone of one of the fastest-growing e Commerce platforms Walmart Marketplace, where third-party sellers meet millions of customers every day. Our mission is bold: to deliver unmatched selection, competitive pricing, and a world-class pre-order, post-order experience, all powered by intelligent platforms and resilient systems.

We empower thousands of sellers to thrive by offering tools to manage every aspect of their digital storefront from listing products to optimizing prices and inventory, while ensuring exceptional customer experiences. Our systems monitor the entire seller lifecycle, leverage real-time data for insights, and seamlessly integrate with partner platforms across the Walmart ecosystem.

What You’ll Own The Trust organization powers the systems that establish trust across the Walmart Marketplace ecosystem by detecting fraud, enforcing marketplace policies, protecting customers and sellers, and enabling compliant business operations at scale.

The growing sophistication of fraud patterns, regulatory requirements, and AI-driven capabilities demands a cohesive architectural vision across multiple platforms and domains.

We are looking for a Distinguished Architect to define the technical strategy, shape next-generation risk platforms, drive architectural excellence across engineering teams, and influence enterprise-wide technology decisions that strengthen Walmart’s trust ecosystem.

Architecture & System Design

Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns.

Drive platform standardization by defining and documenting reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guardrails that teams adopt

Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns with a clear-eyed understanding of trade-offs at Walmart’s operational scale

Author and review RFCs and architecture decision records (ADRs) that become the technical canon for the platform

Hands-On Engineering

Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production

Solve complex problems considering performance, reliability and scalability

Prototype new solutions rapidly using Al-augmented development workflows and then drive them to production quality

Conduct deep-dive code reviews that raise the technical bar of the team.

Own the full software development lifecycle for your initiatives involving design, development, testing, deployment, observability

Complex Problem Solving

Solve the hardest and complex problems and enable the team while doing so

Lead technical investigations for P0/P1 incidents affecting platform services; own the root cause analysis and define permanent fixes

Challenge technical assumptions early in the design process before they become expensive production mistakes

Navigate ambiguity with confidence by breaking down underspecified problems into structured technical approaches and drive alignment across stakeholders

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence

Design for resilience from first principles. Define and own the platform’s non-functional requirements

Instrument systems to be deeply observable and use the signals to drive continuous improvement

Build runbooks and operational playbooks that enable the broader team to operate the services confidently

What You’ll Bring B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline

15+ years of experience in design and development of highly-scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly on multi tenant, SaaS products built with a platform mindset.

Demonstrated experience as an architect of large engineering teams with 50+ engineers.

Deep understanding of Marketplace Risk Technology domain.

Thought leader on GenAI - should be able to show clear examples where the candidate lead GenAI usage/PoCs.

Experience building a ‘Code, Deploy, Run’ pipeline using DevOps best practises by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.

Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.

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