Principal Platform Engineer - AI/ML & Cloud-Native Leader

Walmart - Internal; United States; On-site; USD 143,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) and stock purchase plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Live Better U education benefits

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Principal, Software Engineer to lead platform engineering initiatives, delivering scalable infrastructure and AI/ML integration across teams. You will drive the full software lifecycle with cloud-native design, incident readiness, and performance.

The role requires strategic technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with stakeholders to align with business roadmaps and engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead platform engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native design and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with modern development practices and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering efforts delivering scalable infrastructure and reusable tooling.
• Drive end-to-end software delivery with high availability and fault tolerance.
• Architect AI-enabled services and integrate them using cloud-native principles.
• Mentor engineers and set technical standards aligned with roadmaps.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud-native architecture

CI/CD expertise

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Principal, Software Engineer to lead platform engineering initiatives, delivering scalable infrastructure and AI/ML integration across teams. You will drive the full software lifecycle with cloud-native design, incident readiness, and performance.

The role requires strategic technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with stakeholders to align with business roadmaps and engineering best practices.