(Ind) Principal, Software Engineer

About the role

The Acquisition and Discovery Engineering team at Walmart is dedicated to providing a seamless and delightful shopping experience to millions of shoppers worldwide. As a Principal Software Engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to work on top of the funnel shopping experience – Homepage, Content Pages for SEO and SEM, Search & Browse experiences, Deals and Item pages across mobile and web platforms.

What you'll do

• Define and evolve the technical architecture for platform services, APIs, frameworks, and shared capabilities used by multiple engineering teams
• Lead design of scalable, secure, resilient, and observable systems that support high-volume e-commerce use cases
• Provide technical leadership across teams by reviewing designs, identifying architectural risks, and guiding engineers toward pragmatic solutions
• Act as a hands-on technical expert for critical initiatives, including proof-of-concepts, reference implementations, code reviews, and complex problem resolution
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, API design, testing, automation, release engineering, reliability, and operational readiness

What you need

• 14–25 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• System design
• Java
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Go
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• Microservices
• CI/CD
• Test automation
• Kotlin
• Swift
• SEO