DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Job description

System-Level Technical Leadership: Owns the execution for specific services, platforms, or pipelines within a larger domain, delivering with architectural integrity and reliability. Translates the domain-level strategy into system-level implementation, facilitating alignment across engineering teams and platform stakeholders. Drives operational excellence and execution quality through technical guidance, code reviews, and strategic architectural decisions. Architect and Build Scalable AI-Powered Systems: Leads the design and development of robust, modular, cloud-native software systems and AI agents. Integrates external and internal AI/ML components (for example, reinforcement learning models, goal-oriented agents) for intelligent automation and user-facing experiences. Guides architecture choices that prioritize extensibility, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise standards and security requirements. Own Full Software Development Lifecycle: Champions DevOps and CI/CD principles across teams, ensuring consistent delivery and operational readiness. Ensures services are observable, resilient, and performant with proper instrumentation, logging, and alerting. Leads incident analysis and prevention strategies to drive long-term quality and customer impact mitigation. Foster Culture of Excellence and Mentorship: Coaches and develops engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning. Advocates for high standards in design, testing, and delivery practices and mentors engineers on component-level impacts and system-wide goals. Promotes and models Walmart's cultural values of respect, integrity, service, and excellence. Optimize Systems and Drive Continuous Improvement: Identifies and addresses architectural bottlenecks, integration challenges, or scaling limitations across systems. Champions friction/toil reduction by automating manual processes and improving system developer experience. Continuously evaluates and proposes improvements in tools, processes, and methodologies to increase engineering velocity and reduce overhead. Technical Ownership: Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives. Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion. Technical Judgment: Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals. Change Agility: Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context. Anticipates the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes. Collaboration: Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and products. Encourages experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement. Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas. Software Development, Continuous Integration, Cloud-Native Computing Respect the Individual: Builds high-performing teams; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all. Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments; supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent. Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action. Act with Integrity: Mai