Staff, Software Engineer

Overview

Staff Software Engineer on the Hawkshaw platform, a serverless, SOX-approved audit and reconciliation tool under the Messaging and Streaming pillar of Walmart's Data services business within GTP.

What you'll do

• Design and build highly scalable distributed systems using Java, Python, ReactJS and Vertx.
• Drive architecture, design, implementation and operational readiness of platform capabilities from concept to production.
• Build customer-facing platform capabilities that enable self-service onboarding, simplified configuration and seamless deployment.
• Bring automation and enhance existing integrations for enterprise data platforms.
• Develop reusable platform components, frameworks and APIs that improve engineering productivity across multiple teams.
• Design fault-tolerant, low-latency flows capable of handling large-scale production workloads.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, customer teams and partner engineering organisations to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, operational excellence initiatives and mentoring of junior engineers.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, observability and cost efficiency through performance optimisations and architectural improvements.
• Diagnose complex production issues involving distributed systems, streaming workloads, checkpointing, backpressure, data skew and infrastructure dependencies.
• Drive engineering best practices around testing, automation, deployment, monitoring and production readiness.
• Take ownership of services running in production, including on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis and continuous reliability improvements.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering or related area.
• Strong programming experience in Java and ReactJS.
• Experience with distributed stream processing frameworks.
• Working with relational databases like MSSQL.
• Working with non-relational databases like Cassandra.
• Working with messaging systems like Apache Kafka.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including fault tolerance, checkpointing, partitioning strategies, backpressure, state management and high availability.
• Experience designing cloud-native microservices and REST APIs.
• 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 knowledge of software design patterns, concurrent programming and scalable system design.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and infrastructure automation.
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills for distributed applications.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple engineering organisations and customer teams.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset with experience driving projects independently from design through production rollout.
• Minimum qualifications, either: a Bachelor'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; or 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Nice to have

• Experience building enterprise data integration or ETL platforms.
• Experience working with messaging systems and storage (Presto, Kafka, GCS, Trino etc).
• Experience building software development kit and open source projects.
• Experience building developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.
• Preferred qualification: Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Details

• Based in the Bangalore office for daily work, with flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
• Location: Building 10 (SEZ), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli, India.