Principal, Software Engineer

About the role

GDF (Global Data Foundation) is part of Walmart's 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. that downstream teams across Walmart depend on every day.

What you'll 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
• Durability before writing a line of code
• Flex into data engineering work when needed: contribute directly to Spark-based data pipelines and

What you need

• 12–22 years in software engineering
• Java
• Python
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• Kafka
• LLMs
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• C++
• Go
• Scala
• System design
• Incident response
• Spark