DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Job Description

Position Summary... What you'll do... System-Level Technical Leadership: Owns the execution for specific services, platforms, or pipelines within a larger domain, delivering with architectural integrity and reliability. Translates the domain-level strategy into system-level implementation, facilitating alignment across engineering teams and platform stakeholders. Drives operational excellence and execution quality through technical guidance, code reviews, and strategic architectural decisions. Architect and Build Scalable AI-Powered Systems: Leads the design and development of robust, modular, cloud-native software systems and AI agents. Integrates external and internal AI/ML components (for example, reinforcement learning models, goal-oriented agents) for intelligent automation and user-facing experiences. Guides architecture choices that prioritize extensibility, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise standards and security requirements. Own Full Software Development Lifecycle: Champions DevOps and CI/CD principles across teams, ensuring consistent delivery and operational readiness. Ensures services are observable, resilient, and performant with proper instrumentation, logging, and alerting. Leads incident analysis and prevention strategies to drive long-term quality and customer impact mitigation. Foster Culture of Excellence and Mentorship: Coaches and develops engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning. Advocates for high standards in design, testing, and delivery practices and mentors engineers on component-level impacts and system-wide goals. Promotes and models Walmart's cultural values of respect, integrity, service, and excellence. Optimize Systems and Drive Continuous Improvement: Identifies and addresses architectural bottlenecks, integration challenges, or scaling limitations across systems. Champions friction/toil reduction by automating manual processes and improving system developer experience. Continuously evaluates and proposes improvements in tools, processes, and methodologies to increase engineering velocity and reduce overhead. Technical Ownership: Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives. Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion. Technical Judgment: Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals. Change Agility: Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context. Anticipates the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes. Collaboration: Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, a

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