Staff, Software Engineer - Backend (AdTech)

at  Walmart

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiar with public cloud technologies in Google Cloud Platform, especially BigQuery, GCS and Dataproc
• Experience with ETL pipelines
• Experience in advertising domain (AdTech)
• Familiar with workflow management systems like airflow or oozie
• Experience with enterprise monitoring and alerting solutions like Prometheus, Graphite, alerts manager and Splunk

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.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpr eted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor’s degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

• Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
• Stock equity incentives

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 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 or related field and 3 years’ experience in software engineering

WHAT YOU’LL DO…

There are millions of customers shop on Walmart websites and in stores daily, and advertising helps advertisers bring the best products to our customers. If you want to influence millions of customers on their shopping journeys, we have a role for you. This team in advertising serves as the horizontal data foundation for various applications. We build extremely large-scale data sets, process them using distributed system and enrich them with intelligent insights. As a staff engineer in the team, you will play a key role to collaborate with multiple engineering teams and cross-function teams to understand the business needs and propose the most suitable engineering solutions. You will also lead in researching, designing, implementing and reviewing the platform and products. Additionally, you will mentor and coach the team, ensure the best engineering practices are followed and hold the team accountable.

WHAT YOU’LL DO :

• Leads the discovery phase of large software engineering projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine project strategy; interpreting strategy into sustainable architecture and solutions; identifying short- and long-term solutions and timelines; driving prototype development to ensure concept is feasible
• Tech Lead for core data platform focused in bringing in data from different sources and make this data available in different forms to downstream teams.
• Identify opportunities at the engineering and product side and influence leaders and engineers to solve high impact problems.
• You will be partnering cross-functionally with Product, Data Science and other EMs, to understand the data landscape and influence the methodology choices.
• Partner across Engineering organization to establish strategic plans and objectives to improve the mean time to detect and mean time to restore.
• Leads project teams for engineering projects by providing direction regarding architecture and design; providing guidance regarding project issues or roadblocks; reviewing and approving proposed solutions; implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes; ensure stability and scalability of the platform
• Root-cause analysis of complex problems involving multiple parties, networks, hardware, and software that relate to scaling and performance.