Staff Software Engineer

Position Summary...

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead, design, build, manage and operate end to end Compute Infrastructure solutions and tooling. You’ll work as part of a infrastructure platform team focused on scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure services—owning features from design to production. The ideal candidate is a strong Python developer, comfortable with Java and Go, who can also author Concord workflows, write Ansible playbooks, and manage code with Git following best practices. You should excel in DevOps/SRE workflows and be confident managing databases (schema, operations, performance) and skills in dashboard/UI developments. Also, should have leadership qualities to enable the team in the development and exposure in managing the operating systems of Unix & Linux flavours, understanding of virtualisation infrastructure of Nutanix / VMware with an occasional on-call assistance in a sun model.

What you'll do...

About the team

Enterprise Compute Home-Office provides the managed operating system, managed virtualization & managed hardware support. Enterprise hosts a variety of corporate workloads which are often based on stateful and/or proprietary architecture.

Team Provides secure, well-connected, scalable, segmented, highly available, fully managed environment for hosting mission critical workloads Focused on Enterprise and managed private cloud hardware.

• 24/7 operational support, design, build

• Hardware, hypervisor and operating system support

• Vulnerability management

• Capacity & optimization management

• Asset & Lifecycle management

• Consulting services

• Automation services

• Audit and Compliance reporting

Focus Areas:

• Automation and self-service drives efficiencies

• AI transforms operations

• Enable developer pipelines

• Observability & predictive alerting

• Capacity optimization & right-sizing capacity

• Sustainable lifecycle management via AppDev coordination

• Define canary way of configuration management deployments.

• Maintain the Operational excellence

What You’ll Do

• Design & Develop: Build microservices, CLIs, APIs and automation tooling in Python (primary), plus Java/Go where appropriate.
• Compute Infrastructure: Implement services for provisioning, orchestration, scheduling, capacity management, and lifecycle automation across very large on‑prem and/or cloud environments.
• Workflow Automation: Create and maintain Concord workflows for CI/CD, approvals, environment orchestration, and operational runbooks.
• Operating Systems & Virtualization Management: SME in Managing and assisting the Unix & Linux operating systems, and intermediate exposure of virtualization infrastructure of Nutanix and VMware platforms. Responsibilities include monitoring, automating, troubleshooting, and supporting virtual environments to ensure optimal performance and availability. Additionally, the role requires providing occasional on-call support as part of a Follow-the-Sun (SUN) support model, ensuring continuous operational assistance across global teams.
• Leadership Qualities: Exhibits strong leadership abilities by fostering innovation, driving continuous development, leveraging automation expertise, and empowering the team to deliver high-impact results effectively.
• Configuration Management: Author Ansible roles and playbooks and Puppet code for system configuration, patching, and service deployment.
• Version Control Excellence: Drive high‑quality Git practices—branching strategy, code reviews, PR hygiene, semantic versioning, and release tagging.
• DevOps & Reliability: Build pipelines, observability (metrics, logs, tracing), alerts, dashboards, and SLOs; contribute to incident response and postmortems.
• Database Ownership: Design schemas, write migration scripts, optimize queries, and manage operations (backup/restore, replication, failover) for relational and/or NoSQL systems.
• Security & Compliance: Embed security by design—secrets management, least privilege, image hardening, SBOM, vulnerability scanning, and policy-as-code.
• Documentation & Enablement: Produce clear architecture docs, runbooks, and user guides; mentor peers and enable consumers of your services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with other platform teams, SRE, security, and product teams to deliver outcomes aligned to reliability, cost, and performance goals.

What You'll Bring:

Qualification:

Education: BE/B-Tech or equivalent

Relevant Experience: 10-15 yrs.

• Experience in Git, CI/CD tools.
• Expert in Python, Intermediate in Golang & Java programming.
• SME level Experience in Linux operating systems.
• Experience with developing and maintaining tools for IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
• Good understating on REST API, AI models.
• Exposure in dashboard & UI developments.
• Experience in configuration management tools – Ansible/Puppet.
• Demonstrates strong leadership by enabling the team and fostering innovation.
• Good understanding on virtualization technologies such as VMware & Nutanix.
• Good understanding on clustered/distributed systems.
• Apply best practice and team standards while meeting service level objectives.
• Open to sun model on-call support.

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.

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

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India