About the position
Walmart's Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of seven exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart. As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. Walmart's Talent Management Engineering team is seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to strengthen our GenAI experience platform. You will be hands-on developing critical platform capabilities with cutting-edge GenAI technologies, building reusable and extensible platform services, and ultimately bringing GenAI to the day-to-day of 2.2M Walmart associates worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and development of platform features with microservices (React, React Native, Node.js, Java, Spring Boot) and event-driven (Kafka, SSE, WebSocket) architecture.
- Uphold the engineering and operational excellence standards and embrace automation.
- Work cross-functionally with business, product, data science, front-end engineering, and data engineering teams to ensure alignment and achieve business goals.
- Integrate various data structures using Cosmos DB, SQL Server, and GraphQL APIs.
- Emphasize the importance of data security with sensitive data and access control.
- Implement feature flags, CI/CD with automation, ensuring high operational excellence for 99.99% uptime and sub-second API responses for P90 metrics.
- Stay up to date with the latest AI/ML technologies and trends - acting as a thought leader for GenAI/ML Engineering within the organization and in the broader technical community.
- Collaborate with applied researchers and data scientists to bring cutting-edge GenAI research into application.
- Support production operations for critical and high impact applications.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in platform integration skills using React, React Native, Node.js, Java, and Spring Boot, Python.
- Proficiency in working with different data structures using Cosmos DB, Graph DB, SQL Server, Kafka event topics, and GraphQL APIs.
- Version control using Git in collaboration settings.
- Proven track record of ownership and delivery.
- Experience with developing GenAI-based applications using skills such as Prompt Engineering, RAG, etc.
- Experience with feature flags, CI/CD automation, shift left principles.
- Experience with large-scale data pipelines in online advertising, recommender systems, e-commerce, or relevant areas.
- Emphasis on data security with sensitive data and access control.
- Ability to communicate technical work to senior/executive leaders in both technical and non-technical settings.
- Proven programming skills using standard ML tools such as Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, CUDA, and related framework and libraries.
- Highly resourceful and methodical in solution/architecture/API/codebase design and ability to translate product requirement into engineering blueprint.
- Experience with common ML model serving framework, especially for NLP models/applications. Familiarity with GenAI/LLMs and related tooling ecosystem a plus.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
- 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.
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices.
Benefits
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Multiple health plans
- Incentive awards for performance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Live Better U education benefit program
