Position Summary...

What youll do...

About the team:

The Marketplace Platform is Walmarts horizontal engineering layer for the seller and partner ecosystem. Your technical ownership spans the full scope of the platform:

The team drives platform standardization across marketplace verticals - defining and enforcing implementation patterns so teams build consistently, securely, and at scale. The Identity, Seller Profile & Org Data layer is the foundational data layer every vertical depends on for authentication, authorization, and seller context. The Communication Platform delivers multi-channel messaging across email, push, in-app, SMS, and webhooks - built for reliability, extensibility, and operational scale. External-Facing APls & Integration Health represent the public contract Walmart makes with its developer community, where quality, versioning, and observability are non-negotiable.

The Reporting Portal enables self-serve access to diverse report types across the organization. The Developer Portal & Sandbox are the front door for developers integrating with Walmarts marketplace - from account creation through API discovery to sandboxed experimentation before hitting production.

What Youll Own:

Architecture & System Design

- Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns.

- Drive platform standardization by defining and documenting reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guardrails that teams adopt

- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns with a clear-eyed understanding of trade-offs at Walmarts operational scale

- Author and review RFCs and architecture decision records (ADRs) that become the technical canon for the platform

Hands-On Engineering

- Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production

- Solve complex problems considering performance, reliability and scalability

- Prototype new solutions rapidly using Al-augmented development workflows and then drive them to production quality

- Conduct deep-dive code reviews that raise the technical bar of the team.

- Own the full software development lifecycle for your initiatives involving design, development, testing, deployment, observability

Complex Problem Solving

- Solve the hardest and complex problems and enable the team while doing so

- Lead technical investigations for P0/P1 incidents affecting platform services; own the root cause analysis and define permanent fixes

- Challenge technical assumptions early in the design process before they become expensive production mistakes

- Navigate ambiguity with confidence by breaking down underspecified problems into structured technical approaches and drive alignment across stakeholders

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence

- Design for resilience from first principles.



Define and own the platforms non-functional requirements

- Instrument systems to be deeply observable and use the signals to drive continuous improvement

- Build runbooks and operational playbooks that enable the broader team to operate the services confidently

Al & Innovation

This role is Al-forward by design and needs someone who actively shapes how it is used and pushes the frontier of what Al-augmented engineering looks like at scale.

Day-to-Day Al Fluency

- Proficient with GitHub Copilot, Wibey, and LLM-based tooling as active, daily parts of your development workflow

- Use Al to compress every phase of the engineering loop: schema design validation, code generation and review, test coverage acceleration, documentation, drafting, incident root-cause analysis, and API design feedback

- Identify where Al can replace toil, then build the automation yourself

Al-Native Platform Thinking

- Architect and build Al-native capabilities like intelligent API health monitoring, Al-assisted seller onboarding flows, smart alerting and anomaly detection

- Evaluate and integrate Al/ML capabilities into services where they create measurable seller value

- Stay current on the fast-moving AI tooling landscape and bring high-signal, opinionated recommendations to the team

Al Advocacy & Enablement

- Model Al-augmented engineering practices for the team through live demos, pairing sessions, and written guides

- Work with engineering leadership to identify and prioritize investments where Al creates the most leverage across teams

- Contribute to the broader Walmart engineering communitys understanding of how to build and operate Al-augmented systems responsibly

What youll bring:

Distinguished Engineers at Walmart lead through technical gravity. Your impact multiplies across teams.

- Raise the floor - your code reviews, design feedback, and written standards lift the quality of every engineer in the team

- When a team is stuck on a systems design challenge or a production crisis, you are the person who helps unblock

- Your architectural decisions today shape the technical capabilities and codebase for the future

- Grow technical depth across the org through tech talks, design reviews, RFCs, and hands-on pairing, you are a force multiplier for technical growth across Growth Tech

- Bridge platform and product translate complex technical constraints into clear trade-offs that inform product decisions; translate product ambitions into technically sound, phased engineering strategies





- Pioneer Al adoption - model what Al-augmented engineering looks like at the Distinguished level and create the patterns, playbooks, and tooling that the broader team follows

About Walmart Global Tech
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Walmart s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow outstanding careers. This role is based in our Chennai office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

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Belonging

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At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is-and feels-included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location... Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India

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📌 DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER (Chennai)
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