(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER-1

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team

You will be part of a Data Engineering team that builds and operates scalable, intelligent data platforms enabling analytics, automation and AI-driven decision-making across the organization. Our work focuses on designing high-performance data systems, ensuring reliability and operational excellence and integrating Generative AI capabilities to enhance how data is processed, understood, and used.

We work at the intersection of data engineering and applied AI, developing production-grade agentic systems that handle data at scale, automate complex workflows, and drive measurable business impact. The team culture emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and technical craftsmanship, encouraging innovation while maintaining strong engineering discipline and delivery excellence.

Walmart's Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.

As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is EBS. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart.

What You Will Do

• Architect Data & AI Systems at Scale : Design large-scale, distributed data architectures capable of processing massive datasets, integrating AI-driven workflows, and supporting real-time and batch processing needs.
• Drive Agentic System Design and Execution : Architect, develop, and deploy AI Agents using LangGraph, LangChain, or similar frameworks — enabling autonomous orchestration of data pipelines, analytics, and business workflows.
• Lead End-to-End Productionization of AI Agents : Own the full lifecycle — build, containerize, deploy, and maintain Gen AI agents across environments using Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI / CD systems.
• Define and Enforce Engineering Standards : Set best practices around code quality, observability, scalability, and operational readiness for AI and data systems.
• Guide Data and AI Infrastructure Decisions : Lead design discussions for data modeling, system integrations, and infrastructure architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and related technologies.
• Enable Observability, Traceability & Reliability : Establish end-to-end monitoring and observability frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for AI and data services, ensuring deep traceability of agentic interactions.
• Collaborate Across Teams and Domains : Partner with Product, Data Science teams to align Gen AI initiatives with data engineering objectives — ensuring production reliability and scalability.
• Mentor and Grow Engineers : Provide technical mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and operational excellence.
• Champion Operational Efficiency : Identify and automate pain points in deployment, scaling, and monitoring. Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Own System-Level Decision Making : Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and design patterns across LLMs, MLOps and data infrastructure to guide the organization's technical direction.

What You Will Bring

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.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is 'everyone included.' By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we're able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications : Option 1 : Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2 : 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Rmz Millenia Business Park, No 143, Campus 1B (1St -6Th Floor), Dr. Mgr Road, (North Veeranam Salai) Perungudi , India R-2306656

Skills Required

Java, Airflow, BigQuery, Scala, React, Gcp, Terraform, Spark, gcs , Mcp, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Python