Hybrid Principal Software Engineer – Tech

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Walmart seeks a Principal Software Engineer to design scalable systems managing global infrastructure. Drive architecture development for next-gen Zero-Touch Networking platform.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead architecture for core infrastructure automation components, including orchestrators, workflow engines, configuration managers, and auto-remediation pipelines.
  • Build and scale intent-based networking capabilities that abstract away manual operations and enable real-time, policy-driven infrastructure control.
  • Design extensible APIs and microservices that empower internal teams through intuitive, self-service automation.
  • Lead platform reliability practices—ensuring high availability, robust observability, and clear incident response workflows.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (networking, SRE, cloud, security, observability) to align technical solutions with business needs.
  • Mentor and influence engineers across the organization, shaping Walmart’s infrastructure engineering culture and best practices.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • 10+ years of experience building distributed systems or infrastructure platforms at scale.
  • Deep expertise in infrastructure as code, network automation, and intent-based system design.
  • Proficient in Go, Python, and frameworks like Django.
  • Familiar with modern DevOps tooling: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting frameworks, GitOps practices.
  • Experienced with source-of-truth systems (e.g., NetBox) and hybrid/cloud-native environments (Azure, GCP a plus).

Benefits

  • Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
  • Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
  • Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
  • Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
  • Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.
  • Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Job title

Principal Software Engineer – Tech

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$95,000 - $165,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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