PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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Position Summary... What you'll do... About the team Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers. What You’ll Do We are looking for a passionate and innovative software engineer to join Traffic Foundation within Walmart’s Global Technology Platform group. Traffic Foundation is empowering application teams at Walmart to reach their customers in the fastest, most efficient way possible. We build and design systems handling millions of requests per second, play a critical role in scaling Walmart systems under the extremely high-traffic situations, and provide tools to accelerate, secure, and distribute traffic to all the right places. In this role, you will get to design and build high-performance, next-gen config distributed systems, at massive scale. Working with teams across E-Commerce, Stores, and everything in between to make Walmart technology the fastest and most resilient in the industry. This critical role will be responsible for leading and participating in medium to large scale, complex, cross functional projects. Capable of taking complex problem domains, dissecting them until they’re well understood and delivering excellently engineered solutions. Design and develop the architecture of the distributed config distribution solution, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability. Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team to ensure the solution is developed in accordance with the company's technology standards and best practices. Collaborate with other technical leaders to ensure alignment with the company's technology strategy. Develop and maintain the distributed config distribution solution using programming languages as Golang, good to have - C, or C . Design a config pipeline that integrates with multiple infrastructure systems, including databases, cache frameworks, Go services, cloud components, proxies, and load balancers. Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code that meets the company's coding standards. Drives technical vision and influences product roadmap and vision Implement large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects Leads the discovery phase of large projects to develop high level design Supervise the work of cross-functional groups of engineers, including offshore associates Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues Develops innovation strategies and best practices by leading technical teams, partnering with cross-functional teams, and communicating with executives. Wh

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