Senior, Software Engineer (Backend)
Full-time
Walmart Supercenter
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency services for offer selection and pricing.
- Develop and operate streaming and batch pipelines using Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, and Airflow.
- Partner with data scientists to move ML models from experimentation into production and measure impact through A/B testing.
- Build and improve tooling for flip analysis, parity testing, and experiment dashboards.
- Lead design and code reviews and support the path from pull request through build and canary deployment.
- Drive technical discussions with product, science, and partner teams across Search, Item Page, and Recommendations.
- Use AI agents and AI-assisted development and help shape their use within the team.
Requirements
- At least five years of production software engineering experience, including at least three years with Java and/or Python.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related computing or software field plus three years of relevant experience, or five years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable microservices using REST or GraphQL.
- Hands-on experience with streaming systems such as Kafka or Flink.
- Experience with a public cloud platform such as GCP or AWS.
- Ability to own ambiguous problems end to end, drive cross-team design decisions, and explain complex technical concepts clearly.
- Preferred: production-grade AI/ML systems, experimentation platforms and large-scale A/B testing, BigQuery, Airflow, ML pipeline tooling, pricing or marketplace systems, offer ranking, e-commerce, Node.js, or React.
- Preferred: master’s degree in a related computing or software field plus one year of relevant experience.
- Preferred: knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.
Benefits
- Full-time onsite work in Sunnyvale, California; remote and hybrid options are not available.
- 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and performance incentive awards.
- Immigration sponsorship is not available; applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
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