Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Lead

Socket.dev; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 108,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Paid maternity and parental leave

PTO

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech in Hoboken, NJ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own delivery of distributed services and lead architectural decisions. You will design highly available microservices, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to translate needs into production outcomes.

The role emphasizes operating excellence, on-call ownership, telemetry, and performance tuning within a fast-moving Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent depth).
• Strong experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems (Kafka or similar).
• Strong Azure experience (including CosmosDB).
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL datastores.
• Proven production ownership: on-call, diagnostics, performance tuning, and reliability improvements in distributed systems.
• Strong system design skills and experience operating in fast-paced Agile delivery environments.
• Supply chain / fulfillment domain knowledge (WMS/WES/FC operations exposure is a plus).
• Ability to leverage AI tooling/agents to accelerate development and troubleshooting.
• A strong ownership mindset—able to independently drive solutions from problem statement to production outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable microservices and event-driven systems (Java-based)
• Own end-to-end delivery for complex features: design, implementation, testing, rollout, and long-term operability
• Set a high bar for operational excellence: telemetry, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention
• Drive technical direction in your area: architecture decisions, reliability improvements, performance tuning, and tech-debt reduction
• Produce high-quality code and raise team quality via PR reviews, design reviews, and engineering best practices
• Collaborate deeply with product and business stakeholders to break down ambiguity into executable plans and milestones

Skills

Java

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Kafka

Azure CosmosDB

SQL

NoSQL

On-call

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Job description

Walmart Global Tech in Hoboken, NJ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own delivery of distributed services and lead architectural decisions. You will design highly available microservices, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to translate needs into production outcomes.

The role emphasizes operating excellence, on-call ownership, telemetry, and performance tuning within a fast-moving Agile environment.