Software Engineer III - GraphQL

Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Customer backbone is an intelligent data platform that processes customer activity across markets, programs, devices, apps and to some extent over the Internet, in close to real time, to produce a coherent epitome, that is both representative and predictive. While recent advances in storage technology along with the proliferation of sensors have made collection of vast amounts of data very easy, the central challenge is in privacy preserving inference, be it deterministic or probabilistic. The platform offers superior insights in to customer understanding, while enabling new applications.
Our team believes in being EDHR - i.e., Everyday Holiday Ready - symbolizing the readiness for the scale/redundancy as if it's Black-Friday/Cyber Monday/Big Billion day every day. If you thrive in solving business problems with highly tangible and enormous business impact, love working with fabulous team members who just click, this is the place!
Position Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement large-scale distributed systems that process large volume of data; focusing on scalability, latency, efficiency and fault-tolerance in every system that you build
• Take ownership of a vaguely defined major business problem or product vision, translate it into executable technical design and roadmaps to solve the problem or realize the product vision
• Demonstrate technical skills to go very deep or broad in solving classes of problems or creating broadly leveragable solutions
• Own key components across big data platforms, and work with engineers, product managers, and engineering leaders to identify opportunities for business impact
• Participate in setting a vision and objectives for the team in alignment with business and market needs
• Role model for behaviors such as - being data intensive while taking everyday decisions, approach everyday problems with scientific temperament and rigor, having customer-first mind-set, maintaining highest standards for operational and engineering excellence
• Raise the bar by improving the team's definition of best practices and architecture with deep domain knowledge
• Demonstrate the belief that you can achieve more on a team that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement

Position Requirements:

• Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, team orientation, design thinking, responsiveness, efficiency and innovation
• Ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner
• 6 to 10 years of experience in building large scale products, distributed systems in a high caliber environment, with frameworks and abstractions that are reliable and reusable
• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, including Java and/or Scala
• Have worked alongside the pioneers of big data systems such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Presto, Kafka and Flink to build out a highly reliable, performant, easy to use software systems for Walmart's planet scale of data
• Become proficient of multi-tenancy, resource isolation, abuse prevention, self-serve debuggability aspects of a high performant, large scale services
• Experience in handling and triaging complex production issues
• Good understanding on Cloud Native Architecture
• Solid understanding of building and integrating with stream-based and as well as RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL
• Prior exposure to Azure, GCP, Kafka, NoSQL based cloud native databases , Graph Data bases, and big data technologies
• Experience with SRE practices, including operational architectures, observability, reliability, availability and scalability

Minimum Requirements:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 3+ years of professional experience in various elements of full stack software development - native mobile, web front end, back end, and hands-on coding experience in the past

Benefits & Perks
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
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.
About Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world's largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.
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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 4 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.
Customer Service
Masters: Computer Science
Primary Location...
860 W CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-0000, United States of America