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Principal, Software Engineer


Company : Walmart


Location : Bentonville, AR


Created : 2026-04-04


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Position Summary... As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing new product features, supporting existing implementations and working with product, engineering, & business partners on new innovations. What you'll do... At Walmart, we help people save money,so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make and drives us to create the future of retail. We canu2019t do that without the best talent u2013 talent that is innovative, curious, and driven to create exceptional experiences for our customers. 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. Thatu2019s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Weu2019re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the worldu2019s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 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. Our teams collaborate across the global to build and deploy solutions that enhance our customer experience, improve the lives of our associates, and build value for our business. About our team - Data Ventures Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmartu2019s data by developing andproductizingB2B datainitiativesthat empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business. As part of this transformation, weu2019re seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment. Job Summary As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing new product features, supporting existing implementations and working with product, engineering, & business partners on new innovations. What you'll do: + Lead and participates in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders. + Actively participate and lead the technical requirements analysis, design review, contract closure with cross-functional teams across the globe. + Participate in and identify architectural improvements, code review, best practices, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions. + Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions. + Take ownership of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end components. + Utilize your expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices to create robust and efficient applications. + Mentor/coach other engineers in the team to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them. + Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments, ensuring that these environments are setup with the standard automated build and releases processes & deliver with quality, reliability. + Build, leverage and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services. + Monitor the health of web application, work cross-functionally with partner teams such as Site Ops, Network, Storage, Systems, Monitoring & Application team. + Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability. + Encourage a culture of innovation, creativity, and high standards within the team, promoting the adoption of new technologies and best practices. + Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team. What you will bring + Proventrack recordof building successful software systems frominceptionto deployment. + Proventrack recordof building solutions that solvehighly complexbusiness problems. + Outstanding problem-solving skills, with the ability to make design trade-offs, balancing long-term