Staff Software Engineer

Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About the Team
AIMS enables Walmart's ecommerce business to make and keep promises to its customer in our global market by delivering the next generation of supply chain. The Inventory Management group is responsible for the inbound inventory for the entire Walmart.com and is comprised of Forecasting, Replenishment, and Allocation. The Forecasting team generates data science models to predict demand for any given item at any given point of time. The Replenishment team uses this information as well as others to perform optimizations at a more holistic level. They then formulate a plan that looks at current inventory in real-time across various categories and items. The Allocation team takes care of allocating the inventory across various fulfillment centers so that inventory sits close to demand. They do this taking various factors into consideration like, space available, geography, restrictions, and security. With our product offerings increasing daily, this all has to be done to scale optimizing millions of SKU's and multiple fulfillment centers. These highly available and responsive systems drive the entire inventory management of Walmart.com.
Key Responsibilities

• Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems cloud
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems.
• Ability to design for fault tolerance and high availability.
• Experience with Message Queue based scalable event driven architecture such as Kafka.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the following programming Languages and technologies: Java, Python, Spark (SQL, Streaming), Hadoop Map-Reduce experience. Build Manager (Maven), Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Integration (Jenkins) experience.
• Solid dev-ops skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux.
• Extensive experience building services using back-end technologies (Java, Spring, Jersey)
• In depth knowledge of SQL and database technologies (Hive, MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra)
• Scripting skills in at least one of the following: Perl, Python, Shell, Bash, or Ruby
• Strong aptitude for writing efficient code
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment

Your Qualifications
As a Staff Software Engineer, you are responsible for leading the team in designing high performance and scalable solutions that meet the needs of millions of Walmart customers and its next generation supply chain. Responsibilities include:

• Build solutions that enable sophisticated automation and workflows
• Implement cutting edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data
• Develop high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load big data
• Help the team leverage and contribute to open-source technologies
• Make impact on a global scale

Additional preferred experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline
• Extensive experience building services using back-end technologies (Java, Spring, Jersey)
• In depth knowledge of SQL and database technologies (Hive, MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra)
• Scripting skills in at least one of the following: Perl, Python, Shell, Bash, or Ruby
• Strong aptitude for writing efficient code
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment

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.
Who We Are?
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor of Science and 6 years' experience in software engineering OR Master of Science and 3 years' experience in software engineering OR PhD.
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
Primary Location...
840 W CALIFORNIA AVE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4828, United States of America