(IND) PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Global Tech
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Job summary
Walmart Global Tech in India Bangalore is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and build scalable cloud platforms powering AI agent workflows and governance pipelines for associates globally.
You will lead design reviews, drive technical decisions, and collaborate with product teams to deliver high-impact software across multiple markets. This role requires strong hands-on engineering, cloud, and distributed system expertise.
Qualifications
- 11+ years of experience in design and development of highly scalable applications and platform development.
Responsibilities
- Work with multiple teams and guide them on technical aspects, set quality standards, participate in design discussions, and drive technical decisions across cloud and intelligent platform services.
- Lead Architecture & Design Reviews across teams for high-scale, distributed platform systems.
- Conduct Code Reviews across teams to ensure engineering excellence, security, and performance standards.
- Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set technical priorities, and deliver awesome products.
- Drive design, development, implementation, and documentation for core platform engines, AI agent workflows, and governance pipelines.
- Build, test, evaluate, and deploy cutting-edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide.
- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
- Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
- You will use your engineering experience and technical skills to develop highly scalable, robust, and intelligent platform solutions. You will work with Engineering Leads and Architects.
- Work closely with Architects and cross-functional teams to follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within established architectural guidelines.
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the future technical roadmap of the products and platform capabilities.
- Participate in hiring and build teams, enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.
- Help and participate with teams that leverage and contribute to open-source technologies to make an impact on a global scale.
- Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
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Job description
Walmart is a multi-national, people-led, tech-powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates.
Associate AI Experience team within the AI & Data pillar is dedicated to empowering field associates, business users, and developers alike with seamless, governed AI embedded into everyday workflows to elevate productivity. We build a unified, personalized, and trusted super-agent ecosystem that transforms how work gets done. By putting intuitive agent creation tools directly into the hands of associates, our organization enables domain experts across the enterprise to seamlessly build, test, evaluate, and deploy their own grounded AI agents—connecting their team's knowledge, automating complex tasks, and driving productivity with built-in governance.
Our team is looking for a strong Principal Software Engineer who will help us build this next-generation platform by designing, coding, building, and deploying highly scalable, robust, and intelligent cloud solutions. In this role, you will architect the foundational engines that power associate-built AI agents, automated evaluation workflows, and enterprise-grade governance pipelines that seamlessly cater to associate requirements across internal stakeholders.
As part of Walmart Global Tech in India building solutions across global Walmart markets, your designs and engineering solutions will have a direct, daily impact on millions of associates. You will be challenged with complex business and technical problems that span multiple countries, massive data scale, and enterprise-wide adoption.
- Work with multiple teams and guide them on technical aspects, set quality standards, participate in design discussions, and drive technical decisions across cloud and intelligent platform services.
- Lead Architecture & Design Reviews across teams for high-scale, distributed platform systems.
- Conduct Code Reviews across teams to ensure engineering excellence, security, and performance standards.
- Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set technical priorities, and deliver awesome products.
- Drive design, development, implementation, and documentation for core platform engines, AI agent workflows, and governance pipelines.
- Build, test, evaluate, and deploy cutting-edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide.
- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
- Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
- You will use your engineering experience and technical skills to develop highly scalable, robust, and intelligent platform solutions. You will work with Engineering Leads and Architects.
- Work closely with Architects and cross-functional teams to follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within established architectural guidelines.
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the future technical roadmap of the products and platform capabilities.
- Participate in hiring and build teams, enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.
- Help and participate with teams that leverage and contribute to open-source technologies to make an impact on a global scale.
- Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
- B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline.
- 11+ years of experience in design and development of highly scalable applications and platform development.
- Hosted & Participated in Architecture Review & Design/Code Review events.
- Hands-on System Designing experience for large-scale, complex distributed architectures.
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
- Extensive hands‑on experience building services using these technologies (Java, Python, Scala, Springboot, Microservices, NodeJs).
- Hands-on experience in web technologies like React JS/Angular JS, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS.
- Solid understanding of modern Gen AI, Agentic platform architectures (e.g., LLM orchestration, RAG, agent execution runtimes), and how to apply them to build scalable software solutions.
- In-depth knowledge and hands‑on working experience with RESTful web services.
- In-depth knowledge and working experience with SOAP web services.
- Good knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka/RabbitMQ.
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
- Knowledge of Linux platform.
- Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Jest, Spock, etc.) and code quality control platforms like Sonar.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (IaaS/PaaS).
- CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
- Experience in implementing Distributed Cache (Redis/Hazelcast).
- Well‑versed with Logging and Metrics tools and technologies (ELK/Splunk/Grafana).
- Knowledge in search engines and indexing technologies (Lucene/Solr/Vector search patterns).
- Demonstrated end‑to‑end ownership for development and design of at least one complex cloud-based or platform engineering project.
- Strong hands‑on development skills to prototype complex technical solutions.
- Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills—including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus‑building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
- Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.
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.
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 office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
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.
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.
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.
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
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