Senior Distinguished II, Software Engineer (Cassandra)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team:

Be part of a team that is focused on building a database platform for cloud scale. As part of Walmart Data Platform team, you will play key role in redefining the future of database services on multiple public, private and edge clouds, enabling critical business functions for Walmart. Database Engineering team is well rounded passionate engineering org focused on control plane, data plane, client, and proxy capabilities with a sharp focus on Engineering and Operational excellence. This role works closely with other Architects, lead engineers, managers across the org to lead technical aspect of large-scale, cross-functional distributed systems and technical excellence.

About Role-

As Senior Distinguished Engineer II, Cassandra, you will lead the strategy, architecture, and design of Cassandra service. You will participate and drive open-source Cassandra evolution as well as build server-less Cassandra capabilities to support thousands of business applications. You will be at the forefront of scalability, resilience, and performance, ensuring our cloud-native, and API-first approach meets the evolving needs of a global retail business. This role requires a visionary technology leader with deep experience in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, AI/ML-driven personalization, and event-driven architectures. You will partner with engineering, product, and business teams to drive innovation, establish best practices, and influence the technology roadmap at the enterprise level.

You will need to translate business requirements into scalable, highly available, architectures leveraging and driving the latest open-source technologies. You should have significant experience building and operating Database-as-a-Service at the highest scale.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Participating and driving open-source Cassandra community.
• Providing thought leadership and defining technology strategies.
• Being an admired subject matter expert in one or multiple technology areas.
• Directing and reviewing architectural artifacts (proof of concepts, prototypes, architectural design) and providing valuable recommendations for improvements.
• Advising or conducting POCs to vet out new technologies.
• Driving for Architecture, Engineering, Technology and Operational excellence
• Understand the critical success criteria for any project and take a fail-fast (or, preferably, succeed fast) approach to informing/proving system design and architecture.
• Building systems that are easy to operate and scale delivering the highest SLAs
• Big-picture and strategic thinking.
• Delivering with agility, urgency, and quality.
• Building trust and credibility quickly with Sr. Leadership and stakeholders.
• Being a self-starter, with a mindset for innovation and Can-Do Spirit.
• Being bold and taking calculated risks.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings.
  
  

What you’ll bring…

• Cassandra and/or similar NoSQL development experience.
• Experience with distributed NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Riak, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, etc.)
• A minimum of 15 years overall experience.
• Experience with Azure, GCP, or private cloud.
• Well versed in architecture disciplines and designed high performance, large scalable, and resilient enterprise systems.
• Proven track record of designing, delivering, and supporting large scale, mission critical services
• Significant experience evaluating, assessing, and recommending enterprise-wide cutting edge technology components
• Familiar with integrating data science analytics and ML models into real-time applications.
• A passionate technologist and abreast with industry trends and innovation
• Define reusable and proven patterns, frameworks, reference models to drive Engineering and Architecture quality and speed.
• Train and mentor junior architects and engineers in globally distributed teams.
• Strong Java experience with SQL. NoSQL, Messaging, Queuing, Caching are all required.
• Strong experience with Networking concepts, Security, CDNs, Cloud Services (Azure and GCP preferred), DevOps, Kubernetes.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting best practices and tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk are highly desirable.
• Strong operational skills and awareness are a must.
• Go getter approach to problem solving to work across organizations.
• Be able to code and prototype, do code reviews and design reviews
  
  

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.

Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, 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.

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 interpreted 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 bonus 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.

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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.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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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.

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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.

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For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, See One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $254,000.00-$481,000.00

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Additional Compensation Includes Annual Or Quarterly Performance Bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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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 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 10 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 5 years' experience in software engineering or related field

Primary Location...

640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America

Walmart Global Tech