About the Team:

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Operations, Analytics and Research (OAR) at Walmart, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable operational solutions that enhance the reliability and efficiency of Walmarts omnichannel ecosystem. We are seeking engineers with expertise in AI-driven solutions, intelligent automation, operational analytics, and workflow optimization, combined with strong software engineering skills and a passion for solving complex operational challenges. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop resilient, scalable, and maintainable platforms that automate operational processes, improve observability, accelerate issue resolution, and enable data-driven decision-making across multiple fulfillment and commerce platforms.

What you ll do

- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving distributed systems.
- Develop reusable platform components, frameworks, and APIs to improve engineering productivity across teams.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, customer teams, and partner engineering organizations to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Drive architecture, design, implementation, and operational readiness of platform capabilities from concept to production.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency through performance optimizations and architectural enhancements.
- Drive engineering best practices around testing, automation, deployment, monitoring, and production readiness.
- Own services running in production, including on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements.




- Build Agentic AI services (planning, tool usage, retrieval, and feedback loops) and integrate them with internal systems and APIs.

What you ll bring

- 6+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong programming experience in Java, Python.
- Robust foundation in data structures, concurrency, and system design.
- Experience with distributed stream processing frameworks such as Kafka and Flink.
- Robust understanding of distributed systems concepts with experience designing cloud-native microservices and REST APIs.
- Production experience building AI-powered applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangGraph-style planners, tool-use patterns, retrieval, and memory components), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and workflow orchestration.
- Experience with vector databases (e.g., Milvus, pgvector) and feature stores.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms.
- Experience building highly available production systems with strong observability using metrics, dashboards, logging, and alerting.
- Strong debugging and performance tuning skills for distributed applications.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple engineering organizations and customer teams.
- Demonstrated ownership mindset with experience driving projects independently from design through production rollout.

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📌 Senior, Software Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Walmart
📍 Chennai