As a Staff Sotware Engineer you will have a role that combines technology, innovation, and scalability to design world-class applications, resolve complex outages, and develop systems that redefine the future of retail.
Ensure site resiliency to the breakages.
Job Summary
As a critical part of the highly-skilled Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Group at Walmart Labs, you ll be responsible for creating resilient, robust, and scalable technology infrastructure to ensure the enterprise and e-commerce platforms deliver seamless experiences.
You ll have opportunities to influence large-scale architectural decisions, design cutting-edge solutions, apply automation techniques, and enhance performance, reliability, and functionality for our systems that serve millions globally.
About the team
The Site Reliability and Engineering (SRE) group at Walmart Labs serves a vital role in maintaining mission-critical infrastructure and services that ensure high availability and reliability for Walmarts enterprise and e-commerce platforms.
Site Reliability Engineers blend systems engineering and software development expertise to deliver scalable solutions and keep platforms running efficiently. The team collaborates cross-functionally to design fail-proof systems, reduce system downtime, and optimize operational excellence using metrics, automation, and advanced tooling. Team owns solution for continuous profiling, tracing, policy management, etc
What You ll Do (3 to 5 brief pointers about the roles and responsibility)
Actively contribute to all aspect of development of (but not limited to) Policy Manager which is AI driven platform that provides governance and control of changes that are going into production.
Our team has built several policies and onboarded all teams that use containerized and VM based applications. Manage on-call rotations to monitor and minimize Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) for SRE services.
Develop and scale server clusters through automation, containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring systems. Drive service reliability by establishing and maintaining critical Operational Indicators (SLIs and SLOs), setting alert guidelines, and ensuring error budgets are managed proactively. Partner with cross-functional teams to diagnose, investigate, fix, and prevent complex outages and issues stemming from large-scale distributed systems. Design, build, and maintain tools to improve performance, latency, availability, scalability, and overall system reliability of our applications and services. Regularly conduct root-cause analyses, capacity planning, software performance analysis, and system tuning to prevent future issues and ensure seamless scalability.
What You ll bring
Bachelor s or Master s degree in Engineering, with at least 12+ years of relevant experience.
Expertise in programming languages like Java, Golang, Python, and scripting languages like Typescript or Shell scripting.
Proficiency in using Kafka, SQL/No-SQL databases, Elastic Search, Distributed Caching like Memcache/Redis etc Deep understanding of Unix/Linux system internals , file systems, server protocols, networking concepts, troubleshooting.
Extensive experience in developing tools to manage large enterprise applications intrastructure, tracing issues with 100s of applications, realtime monitoring, automated recovery Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale enterprise cloud native systems with an emphasis on scalability and reliability.
Proven skills in version control (Git), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud computing technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Expertise in CI/CD tools to deploy in cloud native environment.
Proficiency in using enterprise monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, and Splunk .
Or development of similar in-house tool.
Exceptional analytical skills with a system-oriented problem-solving approach and the ability to assess, optimize, and ensure the availability, latency, and reliability of platforms.
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Work
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.
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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 bei
Minimum Qualifications.
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Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors 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.
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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.
. G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India
