(IND) PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER - BE

Position Summary...

What you'll do... Job Description Summary: As a Principal Engineer on the Marketplace Item Setup team, you will be at the center of building and evolving the systems that power how millions of items are listed, managed, and offered across Walmart's global e-commerce platforms. You will work at the intersection of scale, reliability, and business impact — designing microservices and event-driven pipelines that process enormous volumes of item catalog data in real time. You will set the technical direction for the team, mentor senior and staff engineers, collaborate with product and platform partners, and influence engineering standards across Walmart's Global Tech organization. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving complex distributed systems problems and is passionate about operational excellence.

About Team

The Marketplace Item Setup team is responsible for the foundational systems that manage the complete lifecycle of items and offers on Walmart's global e-commerce marketplace — serving global markets at massive scale. From item ingestion and enrichment to attribute validation and offer publishing, our platform processes millions of catalog events every day — enabling sellers and internal teams to list, update, and manage products across multiple markets and geographies. We are a fast-paced engineering team working at the forefront of Walmart's global growth strategy. We build and operate distributed, cloud-native systems using modern Java stacks, event streaming (Kafka), Azure cloud services (including Azure Cosmos DB), and Walmart's cloud-native infrastructure (WCNP). We are deeply invested in engineering excellence, platform reliability, and developer productivity.

What you'll do

Architect and deliver scalable backend systems – Lead the end-to-end design and implementation of high-throughput, low-latency Java microservices handling item catalog ingestion, validation, transformation, and offer publishing across global markets. Drive technical strategy and engineering standards – Define and champion architectural patterns, coding standards, and best practices for the team; conduct design reviews, guide ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and influence platform-level decisions across the Global Marketplace engineering organization. Lead complex problem-solving across distributed systems – Own the resolution of critical production issues, performance bottlenecks, and systemic reliability gaps; apply deep expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka), NoSQL data stores (Cosmos DB), and cloud-native deployments (Kubernetes/WCNP on Azure). Mentor and grow engineering talent – Coach senior and staff engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and design discussions; help build a culture of technical rigor, ownership, and continuous learning within the team. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver business outcomes – Partner with Product Management, Data Engineering, Platform teams, and global market stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions with measurable impact.

What you'll bring

Deep Java and distributed systems expertise – 12+ years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Java (8/11/17+), Spring Boot, microservices architecture, REST and gRPC APIs, and high-scale distributed systems design patterns. Event-driven and streaming systems experience – Hands-on experience building production systems with Apache Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms; solid understanding of eventual consistency, idempotency, and at-least-once/exactly-once processing semantics. Cloud-native and Azure platform expertise – Experience designing and operating services on Kubernetes-based platforms (WCNP/Azure AKS or equivalent); hands-on exposure to Azure cloud services including Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Monitor; familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, distributed tracing), CI/CD pipelines, and SRE principles. E-commerce or catalog platform domain knowledge – Experience in item/product catalog management, marketplace platforms, or supply chain data systems is strongly preferred; ability to quickly ramp on complex business domains and translate them into elegant technical designs. Principal-level leadership and communication skills – Proven track record of leading technical roadmaps, influencing without authority across teams, facilitating alignment between engineering and business stakeholders, and mentoring engineers to accelerate their growth.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

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 office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives

Benefits

• Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone. At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

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 being inclusive of all people.

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 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 7 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 3 years' 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... Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India