Staff, 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.

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 system design and low-level design (LLD) rigor to platform problems - evaluating dependencies, trade-offs, failure modes, scalability
• Flex into data engineering work when needed: contribute to Spark-based data pipelines and processing jobs
• Build AI, GenAI, and agentic-powered platform capabilities: intelligent developer tooling, workflow automation, agentic services
• Own reliability, scalability, and observability for the services you build - service-level objectives, distributed tracing, alerting, and incident response

What you need

• 6–11 years in software engineering
• System design
• Java
• Microservices
• Spring Boot
• Python
• Kubernetes
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• C++
• Go
• Scala
• Kafka
• LLMs
• Incident response