(USA) Senior, Software Engineer

(USA) Senior, Software EngineerPosition Summary...About the Role: We're looking for a Senior Platform Reliability Engineer to join our Kubernetes platform team. This role will help ensure our Kubernetes platform remains stable, observable, and reliable as it evolves. Unlike traditional platform engineering roles focused on building new platform capabilities, this position is centered on operational excellence. You should be curious about why incidents happen, passionate about improving operational maturity, and motivated by helping your team deliver at scale. You'll work closely with platform engineers who build core capabilities while ensuring those capabilities are released safely and operate reliably in production. This is an excellent role for someone who enjoys improving systems, reducing operational risk, and enabling engineering teams through visibility and automation. You are encouraged to create innovative automated solutions and tools to help debug and resolve problems in production and prevent them from recurring. You should be enthusiastic about taking on new unknown challenges and be able to debug complex problems. What You'll Do:Build visibility into our platform - Develop and maintain platform health dashboards, reporting, and operational metrics.Partner with platform engineers to improve resiliency, observability, and operational processes.Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on platform stability and operational excellence.Willingness to contribute to and maintain existing documentation including educational content, system architecture diagrams, post-mortems, and incident management runbooks.Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, sound judgement, operational rigor, and the integrity to make thoughtful decisions that prioritize stability over shortcuts.What You'll Bring:3-5 years of experience in large-scale infrastructure development/deployment/maintenance of the container orchestration ecosystem Kubernetes.2-3 years of experience with software development; fluent in more than one programming language.A strong operational mindset, focused on operational excellence.Experience with a range of Kubernetes tools, for example (or similar tools) Kyverno, Karpenter, Kubectl, KubeCost, Argo CD, Prometheus, Gateway API, VictoriaLogs/Traces, Cluster API, etc.Deep understanding of a wide range of infrastructure & tools on major cloud providers (AWS, GCP and Azure)Experience with tooling and system solutions for cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CI/CD tools e.g. GitHub Actions/Argo CD, and scripting with languages like Python or Typescript.Understands observability and its overall importance to the company's software ecosystem.Enjoys working with the team in person 4-5 days per week.Willing to participate in team on-call rotation.A strong work ethic and ability to be a dependable teammate.Experience in debugging complex problems and problem-solving; enthusiastic about taking on new problems.In-depth knowledge of networking, security, and some knowledge of operating systems.Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.Option 1: Bachelor'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. Option 2: 5 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 1 year's 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.Primary Location...55 Madison St, Denver, CO 80206-5419, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.